Birds: Gulls

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Black-headed Gull

The Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus) is found in most of Europe and Asia and also on the east coast of Canada.

Black-headed Gull

Caspian Tern

The Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia) has a large but sparse habitat and nesting occurs on every continent except South America and Antarctica.

Caspian Tern

European Herring Gull

The European Herring gull (Larus argentatus) occurs as a breeding bird in Iceland and the British Isles, along the western coasts of Europe as far south as southern France, in Scandinavia, the Baltic countries and northwestern European Russia.

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Iceland Gull

The Iceland Gull(Larus glaucoides) nests in the arctic regions of Canada and Greenland. The northernmost populations are distinct migratory and are wintering in the North Atlantic as far south as the British Isles and northernmost states of eastern United States. Some birds spend the winter on the Great Lakes. Some populations that nest farther south, as in Greenland, only moves to the coast after breeding season.

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Great Black-backed Gull

The Great Black-backed gull's (Larus marinus) breeding areas are mostly coasts around Svalbard, Novaya Zemlya, Scandinavia, Estonia, Latvia, Ireland, the UK's west coast, Iceland, southern Greenland and along the west coast of Canada and the USA. Into the country they nest at some of the larger lakes in Sweden and Finland. Parts of the population are migratory birds, primarily populations that breed in Arctic regions. Others are sedentary, or move only short distances.
The Great Black-backed Gull is shy and wary, and a loner in comparison to many other species in the genus.
The Great Black-backed Gull is an opportunistic bird in terms of food and can be classified as omnivores.

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Glaucous Gull

The Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) breeds in the arctic regions of northern Russia, on islands in northern Siberia, Iceland, Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and the Midway Islands in the Pacific. Most birds are migratory. In winter you finc the Glaucous Gull in the North Atlantic and North Pacific Ocean as far south as the British Isles and northern United States, including in the Great Lakes. Some birds sometimes reach the southern U.S. and northern Mexico.
The Glaucous Gull nests on the coastline of rocky shores or steep grassy slopes, but can also breed several kilometers inland on cliffs or on small islands in lakes.
The Glaucous Gull is omnivores. They forage while swimming or walking, but can also pick up food from the water and catch small birds while flying. The gulls often follow fishing boats.

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Black Skimmer

The Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger) is a tern-like seabird, one of three very similar birds species in the skimmer family. It breeds in North and South America. Northern populations winter in the warmer waters of the Caribbean and the tropical and subtropical Pacific coasts, but the South American races make only shorter movements in response to annual floods which extend their feeding areas in the river shallows. Skimmers have a light graceful flight, with steady beats of their long wings. They feed usually in large flocks, flying low over the water surface with the lower mandible skimming the water for small fish, insects, crustaceans and molluscs caught by touch by day or especially at night.

Arctic Tern

Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a migratory bird that breeds in colonies in the circumpolar arctic and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America. The species is known to be the animal in the world that move the longest distance between their breeding grounds and their winter quarters, which are found in Antarctica. The populations that are moving, move about 40 000 km annually, equivalent to a lap around the earth.

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Least Tern

The Least Tern (Sternula antillarum, formerly Sterna antillarum) is a species of tern that breeds in North America and locally in northern South America. It is migratory, wintering in Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America. Many spend their whole first year in their wintering area. It has occurred as a vagrant to Europe, with one record in Great Britain.

Sandwich Tern

The Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus / Sterna sandvicensis) occurs in Europe, Asia, North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Most of the population are migratory birds.

Yellow-legged gull

The yellow-legged gull's (Larus michahellis) breeding range is centred on the Mediterranean Sea.

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Caspian gull

The Caspian gull (Larus cachinnans) breeds around the Black and Caspian Seas, extending eastwards across Central Asia to north-west China. In Europe it has been spreading north and west and now breeds in Poland and eastern Germany

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White-winged tern

The white-winged tern, or white-winged black tern (Chlidonias leucopterus or Chlidonias leucoptera), is generally found in or near bodies of fresh water across from Southeastern Europe east to Australia.

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Sabine's gull

The Sabine's gull (Xema sabini), also known as the fork-tailed gull or xeme, breeds in the Arctic and has a circumpolar distribution through northernmost North America and Eurasia.

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Mediterranean gull

The Mediterranean gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus) is a small gull which breeds almost entirely in the Western Palearctic, mainly in the south east, especially around the Black Sea, and in central Turkey. There are colonies elsewhere in southern Europe.

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Fulmar

The Arctic Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) breeds in subarctic and arctic areas, such as in Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Spitsbergen.

The Fulmar breeds in the UK where it's population spread from the island of St.. Melbourne to the north of Scotland during the 1800s and the remaining areas in the 1930s. When not breeding, the fulmar is a highly pelagic species.

Little Tern

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Lesser Black-backed GullLesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) has a breeding range that extends from Iceland in the northwest to Spain in the southwest and the Taimyr Peninsula in the northeast.

Kittiwake

The Kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla) has a circumpolar distribution in the arctic and temperate regions and occur in the North Atlantic and North Pacific.
In Europe, it lives primarily in the North Atlantic coasts. During the 1900s, it has established itself in the North Sea and Kattegat.

Little Gull

Little Gull (Hydrocoloeus minutus) has a very wide range. It breeds in northeastern Europe and in scattered locations in central Europe and in Asia, in Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. It also breed very locally at the Great Lakes in North America.