Posts Tagged ‘gulls’

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Gulls Gorging on Fish – Bird Behaviour

I have taken advantage a few times recently of an area where gulls congregate to feed on discarded fish heads at the rear of a fish shop at Dungeness, on the Kent coast, but today there was a real feasting session with a large group of gulls devouring a large amount of fish heads and [...]

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Sabine’s Gull at Pennington Flash | British Birding

I spent the last few days walking in the mountains in the Lake District National Park, but on my way I decided to stop off to look for a couple of unusual birds, the first being an adult Sabine’s Gull which had been reported as present for a few days at Pennington Flash, near Manchester. [...]

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Gull Identification Problems | Thailand Birding

On 17th February I took a boat trip onto the sand spit at Laem Pak Bia accompanied by six British birders and Mr Daeng to look for White-faced Plover. On arriving at the sand spit a number of large gulls drew our attention including 5 Pallas’s Gulls and a Black-tailed Gull. Whilst watching these several [...]

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Gulls at Bang Poo | Thailand Birding

Every “winter” the gull flock at Bang Poo is more than 2000 birds strong and with ever-increasing numbers of Thai day trippers feeding the gulls this large flock of gulls is likely to remain a feature of birding in Thailand. A Lesser Black-backed Gull had been seen there a few weeks back, only Thailand’s second [...]

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Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America by Klaus Malling Olsen & Hans Larsson

Having recently discussed the addition of Slaty-backed Gull to the Thai list, it seems only natural to talk about Gulls of Europe, Asia & North America which attempts to deal with all the races of large gulls that have caused so much confusion over recent years, as well as all the other, more well-understood gull [...]

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