Great Black-Backed Gull
The Great Black-Backed Gull (Larus marinus), also known as the Greater Black-Backed Gull or, informally, as the Black-Back, is the largest member of the Gull family. It breeds on the European and North American coasts and islands of the North Atlantic and is fairly sedentary, though some Black-Backs move farther south or inland to large lakes or reservoirs. The adult Great Black-Backed Gull has a white head, neck and under parts, dark grey wings and back, pink legs and yellow bill.
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Great Black-Backed Gull รข Juvenile
The Great Black-Backed Gull (Larus Marinus), also known as the Greater Black-Backed Gull or, informally, as the Black-Back, is the largest member of the Gull family. It breeds on the European and North American coasts and islands of the North Atlantic and is fairly sedentary, though some Black-Backs move farther south or inland to large lakes or reservoirs. The adult Great Black-Backed Gull has a white head, neck and under parts, dark grey wings and back, pink legs and yellow bill.
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Great Black-Backed Gull โ Juvenile
The Great Black-Backed Gull (Larus Marinus), also known as the Greater Black-Backed Gull or, informally, as the Black-Back, is the largest member of the Gull family. It breeds on the European and North American coasts and islands of the North Atlantic and is fairly sedentary, though some Black-Backs move farther south or inland to large lakes or reservoirs. The adult Great Black-Backed Gull has a white head, neck and under parts, dark grey wings and back, pink legs and yellow bill.
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Great Black-Backed Gull โ Juvenile
The Great Black-Backed Gull (Larus Marinus), also known as the Greater Black-Backed Gull or, informally, as the Black-Back, is the largest member of the Gull family. It breeds on the European and North American coasts and islands of the North Atlantic and is fairly sedentary, though some Black-Backs move farther south or inland to large lakes or reservoirs. The adult Great Black-Backed Gull has a white head, neck and under parts, dark grey wings and back, pink legs and yellow bill.
Juvenile birds of under a year old have scaly, checkered black-brown upper parts, the head and under parts streaked with gray brown, and a neat wing pattern. The face and nape are paler and the wing flight feathers are blackish-brown. The juvenile's tail is white with zigzag bars and spots at base and a broken blackish band near the tip. The bill of the juvenile is brownish-black with white tip and the legs dark bluish-gray with some pink tones. As the young gull ages, the gray-brown coloration gradually fades to more contrasting plumage and the bill darkens to black before growing paler. By the third year, the young gulls resemble a streakier, dirtier-looking version of the adult. They take at least four years to reach maturity, development in this species being somewhat slower than that of other large gulls. The call is a deep "laughing" cry, kaa-ga-ga, with the first note sometimes drawn out in an almost bovid-like sound. The voice is distinctly deeper than most other gull species.
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Great Black-Backed Gull โ Juvenile
The Great Black-Backed Gull (Larus Marinus), also known as the Greater Black-Backed Gull or, informally, as the Black-Back, is the largest member of the Gull family. It breeds on the European and North American coasts and islands of the North Atlantic and is fairly sedentary, though some Black-Backs move farther south or inland to large lakes or reservoirs. The adult Great Black-Backed Gull has a white head, neck and under parts, dark grey wings and back, pink legs and yellow bill.
Juvenile birds of under a year old have scaly, checkered black-brown upper parts, the head and under parts streaked with gray brown, and a neat wing pattern. The face and nape are paler and the wing flight feathers are blackish-brown. The juvenile's tail is white with zigzag bars and spots at base and a broken blackish band near the tip. The bill of the juvenile is brownish-black with white tip and the legs dark bluish-gray with some pink tones. As the young gull ages, the gray-brown coloration gradually fades to more contrasting plumage and the bill darkens to black before growing paler. By the third year, the young gulls resemble a streakier, dirtier-looking version of the adult. They take at least four years to reach maturity, development in this species being somewhat slower than that of other large gulls. The call is a deep "laughing" cry, kaa-ga-ga, with the first note sometimes drawn out in an almost bovid-like sound. The voice is distinctly deeper than most other gull species.
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