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Other sightings at Race Point included a surprise Atlantic puffin flyby, a little gull, a black tern, a glaucous gull, 5 lesser black-backed gulls, 24 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 58 Cory’s shearwaters, 2 ...
This gull is around 69-73 centimetres long with a wingspan of 156-160 centimetres. The great black-backed gull is a common breeding species found here — at the coast and on estuaries — all ...
A kelp gull has been spotted in Milwaukee under the Hoan Bridge, the first confirmed sighting of the species in Wisconsin.
Montauk gulls can include Black-legged Kittiwake, Iceland Gull, and Lesser Black-backed Gull, among the common species. Purple Sandpiper is found along the rocky shore. Given its geography, it’s ...
BRUCE MACTAVISH: On the hunt for the first ring-billed gull to herald spring in NL Ring-billed gulls will soon be a common sight, but the first one spotted this time of year is a sure sign spring has ...
Our region’s most common gulls are pictured in the foreground: Herring Gull, left, and Ring-billed Gull, right. The black-billed bird is a young Laughing Gull.
A man who repeatedly drove a digger through a gull colony on New Zealand's South Island has received a hefty fine. Clive Gordon drove a utility vehicle and a 14-tonne digger through the colony of ...
Black-billed gulls are endemic to New Zealand and are listed as ‘at risk – declining’. “A very small proportion of the black-billed gull population resides around Lake Taupō – we think there’s about ...
The tarāpuka, or black-billed gull, does not exist anywhere else in the world. “It’s the rarest, and actually smallest of the gull species in the world,” Forest & Bird Ashburton’s Edith Smith said.
Ring-billed gulls are small, about the size of a crow. They get their name from a black ring around the tip of their yellow bills. (Although a common sight, they do not breed in Massachusetts: Their ...
A small group of gulls often seen in Waipukurau’s main street has been identified by the Department of Conservation (DoC) as the threatened black-billed gull/tarāpuka. Black-billed gulls are ...
This black-billed gull/tarāpuka chick ended up in human care after tumbling off a roof in Tūrangi. Photo / Krysia Nowak | DOC Hundreds of protected birds take up residence in small North Island ...