Arctic terns, Mew gulls, scaup, shoveler, buffleheads, baldpates, yellow legs and various passerines were observed. |
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Dozens of the dainty white gulls danced over the water, and I saw a Bald Eagle flying in the distance. |
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We recorded kleptoparasitism and predation by gulls by ad libitum, continuous sampling of the gridded area, including the air above it. |
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They face a host of predators, including sea eagles, golden eagles, peregrine falcons, black-backed gulls and rats. |
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What he saw among the wheeling of gulls, the trembling of sea pinks, and the sprouting of broom, was a crack. |
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Great frigate birds, red-footed boobies, swallow-tailed gulls and storm petrels all breed here by the thousands. |
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The refuse dump-sewage lagoons had the largest numbers of waterfowl, herring gulls, and hoary redpolls, but the lowest diversity index. |
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A variety of birds make their homes around the harbour including yellow eyed and blue penguins, black back gulls, and five types of cormorants. |
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The gulls seem to have watches because they arrive here on the dot every lunchtime. |
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Various kittiwakes, puffins, cormorants and gulls are common birds found here. |
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Four times that number of surfcasters sent lures and bait in the direction of the flocks of diving gulls, a sign of feeding fish. |
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It's high tide, so the sea in its surfeit doesn't pound itself against the shore but sends its waves softly like gulls gliding. |
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Carrion crows, large gulls, hawks and herons all receive severe punishment. |
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Free monkey nuts were on the menu, but had to be abandoned when gulls laid siege to the pub. |
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For centuries the discarded fish from the on-board filleting process has been chucked back out to sea for the gulls. |
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We restricted our density calculations to birds on the water, with the exception of glaucous gulls. |
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Lots of fulmars and gulls, even a bonxie although it did not hang around for long. |
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As black-headed and common gulls tend to feed on farmland, it seems likely that farmland is the origin of the outbreak. |
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The previous day, we'd seen a white-tailed eagle, little gulls, three smew and, most remarkable of all, a great white egret. |
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I watched the gulls and terns and a congregation of plovers who fed against the color-soaked sky. |
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Management of piping plovers includes control of predators such as red foxes, raccoons, gulls, and crows. |
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They include tundra swans, arctic terns, northern fulmars, black guillemot, and various loons, ducks, geese, gulls, jaegers, and alcids. |
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Ducks, coots, teals, terns, gulls, cormorants, waders, egrets, plovers and herons are some of the birds that assemble here. |
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But in Folkestone, the sun glinted off the sea and vagrant scavenging gulls wheeled around. |
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Sea gulls screech over head, their noiseless chatter bestowing fresh fish onto the heads of tourists who know not how to treat a gull. |
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Not that I'll be wiping pretend crude oil off pretend sea gulls, you understand. |
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Overhead, gulls, brown pelicans, and roseate spoonbills wheel through the steamy air. |
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The waters surrounding Pigeon Island offer great fishing for sea birds including gulls, terns and the brown booby. |
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For those who prefer to stay on shore, Ocean City's bayside overlooks mudflats that harbor waterfowl, shorebirds, and gulls. |
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Like many gulls, the Mew Gull uses a variety of foraging techniques, obtaining food while walking, wading, swimming, or flying. |
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Around the rocky shores sea birds such as gulls, terns, cormorants, gannets and puffins nested in the cliffs and dunes. |
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Primary predators for these eiders were large gulls, and occasionally evidence of mammalian predation was found. |
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Unlike other birds observed during these surveys, glaucous gulls occurred in significantly higher densities in June than in July and August. |
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Herring gulls nest numerously here, as they do at Emery and other points already passed. |
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Among some ground-nesting waterbirds, such as gulls and plovers, research has shown that speckling aids egg camouflage. |
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On the lake itself, we mainly saw the same woodpeckers, gulls, goldfinch, robins, waxwings, juncos, and other common birds spotted last year. |
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Black-headed gulls float in standing water in fields along the road, as they have for the past few days. |
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Alpacas and llamas abound, as do viscachas and water birds such as ducks, flamingos and weighty gulls. |
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The primary predators of eggs and goslings at the study site are herring gulls, parasitic jaegers, ravens and Arctic foxes. |
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The dump is a big draw to gulls and crows and I'm sure I'll see something good in the gull department. |
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Rendezvous Bay stretches for 2 miles, and the nearby salt ponds attract whistling ducks, laughing gulls and other birds. |
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On land penguins also have a number of enemies which include leopards, caraculs, kelp gulls and mongooses. |
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The aroma of the sea brought back fond memories and excited new feelings, the cry of gulls overhead was dearer than any symphony. |
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At first glance the drained muds of the Blyth estuary were dotted with shelduck, redshank, curlew, wigeon, pintail and black headed gulls. |
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Mark and Alex took the lead in the kayaks, harried by pale glaucous gulls and the quick, forked-tailed arctic terns. |
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The artist's work focuses on the seafront and includes the groynes, gulls, yachts, beach huts and other items that form estuary scenery. |
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The spot where I like to sit looks out over rocky shallows where ducks, gulls, heron, cranes, and egrets like to gather. |
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When we arrived at the island, we were greeted by a flock of Tree Swallow, the usual assortment of common gulls, and a few Killdeer. |
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When the gulls landed on the water, the killer whale would then attempt to capture them in her mouth, without killing them. |
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Many species eat the fry and smolts, including striped bass, American shad, sculpins and sea gulls. |
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A killer whale calf learned the trick of luring gulls to the surface of the water with fish. |
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We also saw the usual variety of gulls, raptors, woodpeckers, and passerines throughout the morning. |
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The list was impressive and included robins, starlings, a goldfinch, blackbirds, redwings, chaffinches, wood pigeons and black-headed gulls. |
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Last fall brought another disaster, with the corpses of thousands of loons, mergansers, other ducks, and gulls washing up on Lake Erie's shores. |
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It reared some 175m above the water, its crevices packed with noisy gannets, puffins, guillemots and gulls. |
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There were thousands of gulls present along with geese, ducks, egrets, and crows all loafing or actively feeding on the airfield. |
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The lines of supporting buoys have been adopted by cormorants, gulls, guillemots, eider ducks, oystercatchers and even the odd heron. |
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Overhead, a mewing cry announced the passing of a white-tailed sea eagle, which was being mobbed by agitated gulls. |
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Silent gulls on the wing are ominous, somehow, and not a little threatening. |
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One group is studying kelp gulls, south polar skuas and sheathbills and another group is studying Adelie penguins. |
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It houses Manx shearwaters, herring and black-backed gulls, razorbills, stormy petrels and guillemots as well as puffins. |
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In the event of an oil spill, sea ducks are more vulnerable to contact oil than surface-feeding species, such as glaucous gulls. |
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North Deer is recognized worldwide as having an outstanding concentration of colonial nesting birds, including skimmers, gulls and terns. |
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Hook them through the belly and they'll swim up, but that will only feed the skimmers, terns and gulls wheedling overhead. |
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The unguarded chicks and eggs are easy prey for gulls and other avian predators. |
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There were lots of black-winged stilts, avocets, Red-wattled plover and black-headed gulls. |
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We heard the raucous squabbling of gulls and the haunting pipe of the curlew. |
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Hundreds of gulls, cormorants and fulmars nest in the cliffs and in burrows on cliff-edges. |
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There are herons, ducks, geese, ospreys, eagles, vultures, pelicans, gulls, plovers, avocets, storks, francolins, guinea fowls and many more. |
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Great skuas, gannets, fulmars, blackheaded gulls and a few guillemots played like children. |
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We've just been attacked by psycho gulls and a demon dog, and that was right here, not off in la la land. |
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Same-sex copulation and bonding are common in hundreds of species, from bonobo apes to gulls. |
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Brown pelicans and frigatebirds with vast wingspans soar on the Leeward thermals, and laughing gulls cackle. |
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Victims of egg-plundering skuas, which resemble large rapacious gulls, squawk indignantly. |
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Any of the above, as well as weasels, lemmings, some hawks, ravens, Canada jays, and gulls will scavenge caribou carcasses. |
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Dauphine echoes the initial warning of the second prologue in describing the ways in which the gulls are duped. |
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I could go on and on about the many herons, egrets, gulls, terns, and various and sundry other species we spotted yesterday. |
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A flock of sea gulls is set down in the field of alfalfa recently harvested, a study in green and white. |
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It houses Manx shearwaters, herring and black-backed gulls, razorbills, stormy petrels and guillemots besides puffins. |
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Earlier we glimpsed a seal, and we've seen bountiful mussels and clams half-buried in the mud and the sanderlings, avocets, and gulls that feed on them. |
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On the beach we saw some willets and gulls but no terns or sanderlings. |
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The cries of circling gulls add to the eerie sense of remoteness. |
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As usual, the local congregation of plovers has scattered at widespread intervals between the hundreds of the main constituents, a few black-headed gulls. |
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One scenic palm stands alone midst the cry of gulls, pelicans and boobies. |
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Large amounts of rubbish in the streets and round buildings attracted scavenging birds such as gulls, buzzards, ravens and red kites when things were quiet. |
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Small birds are altogether absent and, except the ordinary domestic fowl, we found only the tropic or man-of-war bird, petrels, gulls, and a variety of aquatic birds. |
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In gulls and terns, differences in chick survival may be more affected by compositional changes in the amount of lipid or protein in the eggs than by overall size of the egg. |
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In this lagoon, brown pelicans, double-crested cormorants, great and snowy egrets, and numerous terns and gulls forage for fish and other items of food all day long. |
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An estimated 1.5 million eared grebes, 50,000 Wilson's phalaropes, 50,000 California gulls, and 200 snowy plovers visit Mono Lake each spring and summer. |
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I was thinking back to the last time I saw Franklin's gulls like this and it was right before a storm, a flock was flying around for insects right in front of the storm cloud. |
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Below we report the geographic distribution of long-tailed ducks, eiders, scoters, glaucous gulls, and Pacific loons with respect to month and ice cover. |
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At the otherwise silent hotel, I am woken at 6.30 am by the screech of gulls as the mackerel boats cast off from the harbour and head out on the early-morning tide. |
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The sky is busy with gulls and the exposed sands and stones are playgrounds to coastal waders, including oyster catchers, cormorants and sandpipers. |
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The gulls gleam blindingly when the sunlight hits their wings. |
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The abundance of gulls, terns, skuas, guillemots and puffins has long been a prime tourist attraction, as well as of global wildlife significance. |
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Many shorebirds and seabirds are found here, including rhinoceros auklet, Brandt's cormorants, and all manner of gulls, puffins, petrels, murres, and more. |
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Kelp gulls used a wide variety of habitats, including areas with different slopes and degrees of vegetation cover located on island or mainland sites. |
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The shorebirds were joined by lots of geese, gulls, and Caspian Tern. |
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The marine coastline is extremely important to bird habitat and migration, and Ross's gulls, snow geese, Canada geese, ducks, and ptarmigan are abundant. |
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The Northern Fulmar varies in color from mostly white, to gray and white like many gulls, to an overall gray-brown, with every possible shade in between. |
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It is particularly known for its diversity of gulls and sea ducks. |
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Besides a few gulls and black ducks, we had the place to ourselves. |
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Other than that, it was just common gulls, ducks, and geese. |
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Scotland has seen significant rises in populations of gannets, common gulls and puffins, but other species, such as the arctic tern, are in steep decline. |
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That correlation may also occur because gulls follow diel cycles of puffin activity attacking most often in the morning when puffin returns are likely to be highest. |
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Ram Island had been cleared of competing gulls some years ago to open up beach nesting habitat for the endangered roseate tern, which then flocked to nest there. |
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Garbage will attract gulls and mammals that prey upon nesting birds. |
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Sea gulls cried overhead and gentle breezes blew from the lake. |
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And they sound like gulls, you know, when they sit and gossip in a bar together. |
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Nobody ever made a more straight drill or ploughed a field with such precision and he was at his happiest as he turned the rich brown soil followed by a flock of hungry gulls. |
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Teams searched large areas on foot, recording and mapping all occurrences of Steller's or spectacled eiders, as well as predators such as gulls, jaegers, and foxes. |
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The first of these, Archeozoic, realistically simulates the sound of gulls crying. |
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The taxonomy of gulls is confused by their widespread distribution zones of hybridization leading to geneflow. |
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This name is used informally to refer to a common local species or all gulls in general, and has no fixed taxonomic meaning. |
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Terns are treated as a subgroup of the family Laridae which includes gulls and skimmers and consist of eleven genera. |
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Within the order, the terns form a lineage with the gulls, and, less closely, with the skimmers, skuas, and auks. |
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Heavily worn or aberrant plumages such as melanism and albinism are much rarer in terns than in gulls. |
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The eggs of most gulls and terns are brown with dark splotches, so they are difficult for predators to spot on the beach. |
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Adults may be robbed of their catch by avian kleptoparasites such as frigatebirds, skuas, other terns or large gulls. |
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Although they spend most of their lives in the ocean, species such as gulls can often be found thousands of miles inland. |
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These nesters include species of albatrosses, petrels, skuas, gulls and terns. |
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Bird species present are primarily auks and gulls, which feed in nearby offshore waters as well as more distant North Sea reaches. |
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House sparrows are endangered unless we reduce the numbers of gulls in our city. |
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As it rots, the sand flies it abounds in provide rich feeding for flocks of starlings and other passerines, wintering waders, gulls and others. |
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They are even said to dominate gulls, skuas, and fulmars that may be competing with them. |
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Species such as buzzards, peregrine falcons, northern wheatears, ravens, gulls, auks, Manx shearwaters and guillemots all call the island home. |
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Adam had his huge spotting scope with him, and we quickly picked off herring and great black-backed gulls on buoys downriver. |
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Others also at risk include ivory gulls, Pacific walruses, ringed and hooded seals and narwhals, small whales with long, spiral tusks. |
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Some American gulls, ducks and waders are regular enough not to be considered rare. |
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Peruvian pelicans in Chile have been recorded feeding on nestlings of imperial shags, juvenile Peruvian diving petrels and grey gulls. |
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Among the species most likely to be sighted at Marsden Bay will be breeding kittiwakes, fulmars, razorbills and gulls. |
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Glaucous gulls were at Carmel Head and Rhosneigr over the weekend, and Long-tailed Ducks remain at RSPB Valley Wetlands and Llyn Trawsfynydd. |
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The field proved popular, with a flock of black-headed gulls and even a mistle thrush. |
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A long-tailed duck flew past Llanddulas on Sunday, while on Anglesey a female velvet scoter and a couple of little gulls have been at Lligwy Bay. |
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What effort in these carvings, their fishtails accentuated with a rhythmic bump, visited by gulls, lightly smoked, long may they swirl. |
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Though similar in appearance to gulls, fulmars are in fact members of the family Procellariidae, which include petrels and shearwaters. |
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Year-round bird species include murres, auklets, kittiwakes, puffins, guillemots, Kittlitz's murrelet, and gulls. |
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However, the upper parts of the island were interspersed with nests of kelp gulls and Peruvian diving-petrels. |
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Terns are normally free of blood parasites, unlike gulls that often carry Haemoproteus species. |
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The time taken to learn foraging skills may explain the delayed maturation in gulls. |
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For example, because of their aggressive nest defense behavior, colonial gulls reduce predation rates on associated species. |
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The Bee-eater, terns, sand martins herons, gulls and duck species all rely on the area s mixed habitat features. |
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Red knots, sanderlings, and laughing gulls were rarely infected, but dynamic changes in antibody prevalence differed among species. |
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And occasional rarity such as greylag goose, red-crested pochard while gulls are found along the coast. |
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They will also follow fishing boats with the hope of finding food in the same way as gulls do. |
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Additionally, loons, grebes, ducks, coots, auks, gulls, geese and even swans have been preyed upon. |
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A little auk was a late visitor past North Stack, while three little gulls were blown in to Porthmadog's Llyn Bach by last week's storms. |
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She'd never heard the sound of sea gulls crying by the shore. |
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Waders are members of the order Charadriiformes, which includes gulls, auks and their allies. |
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An excellent and famous example of a ring species exists and has been described around the arctic circle in the form of the Larus gulls. |
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Most famously, frigatebirds and skuas engage in this behaviour, although gulls, terns and other species will steal food opportunistically. |
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Many species, such as gulls, auks and penguins, retain the same mate for several seasons, and many petrel species mate for life. |
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However, some seabirds, particularly, the albatrosses and gulls, have broken into popular consciousness. |
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A captive killer whale at MarineLand discovered it could regurgitate fish onto the surface, attracting sea gulls, and then eat the birds. |
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Like other petrels, their walking ability is limited, but they are strong fliers, with a stiff wing action quite unlike the gulls. |
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Apart from the kittiwakes, gulls are typically coastal or inland species, rarely venturing far out to sea. |
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Many species of gulls have learned to coexist successfully with humans and have thrived in human habitats. |
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They are more adept walking on land than most other seabirds, and the smaller gulls tend to be more manoeuvrable while walking. |
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The walking gait of gulls includes a slight side to side motion, something that can be exaggerated in breeding displays. |
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In addition to taking a wide range prey, gulls display great versatility in how they obtain prey. |
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A method of obtaining prey unique to gulls involves dropping heavy shells of clams and mussels onto hard surfaces. |
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Most gulls breed once a year and have predictable breeding seasons lasting for three to five months. |
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In coastal towns, many gulls nest on rooftops and can be observed by nearby human residents. |
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The eggs of gulls are usually dark tan to brown or dark olive with dark splotches and scrawl markings, and are well camouflaged. |
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Don't blame the fat gulls PERHAPS the fat gulls of Merseyside would be a little leaner if the litter louts in the area did not drop their food on their floor. |
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The birds that prey on pigeons in North America can range in size from American kestrels to golden eagles and can even include gulls, crows, and ravens. |
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To obtain prey from deeper down, many species of gulls feed in association with other animals, where marine hunters drive prey to the surface when hunting. |
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The four-year-old male at Marineland, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, devised a way of catching gulls by releasing regurgitated fish on to the water's surface. |
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Varieties of sandpipers, redshanks, ruffs, stints and gulls come all the way from Europe and Siberia usually arrive in the city in late September. |
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Both Iceland and glaucous gulls were seen at Pensarn and both were first-summer birds, evidently not fancying the trip into the Arctic Circle until it's time to breed. |
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The group saw lots of winter migrant birds including Great Northern Divers, a Slavonian Grebe, a Smew, and a fantastic sunset show put on by thousands of gulls. |
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Killer whales in many areas may prey on cormorants and gulls. |
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Birdlife includes flamingos, sea gulls, cormorants, wild fowl, pintails, shovelers, blackwinged stilts, teals, crab plovers, avocets and grey herons. |
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Only a short boat trip away are the uninhabited nature sanctuaries Green Island and Great Bird Island, home to West Indian whistling ducks, rare lizards and laughing gulls. |
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Until the 21st century, most gulls were placed in the genus Larus, but this arrangement is now known to be polyphyletic, leading to the resurrection of several genera. |
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At least two glaucous gulls continue to inhabit the Menai Straits, but five avocets that spent a weekend at RSPB Conwy moved on, despite mating and prospecting for nests. |
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Among the most notable animals in the archipelago are austral parakeets, sea gulls, guanacos, foxes, kingfishers, condors, king penguins, owls, and firecrown hummingbirds. |
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Many birds live largely as scavengers, regularly pirating food from otters and other birds including cormorants, gulls, ospreys and various other raptors. |
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Seabirds, including the western gulls, bald eagles, pigeon guillemots, and Scripps's murrelets use the islands as well for shelter and breeding grounds. |
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Species such as walruses, Arctic foxes, sled dogs, muskoxen, lemmings, Arctic terns, Ross's gulls, belugas, hawks, squirrels are splendidly photographed. |
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A variety of seabirds can be seen close to the seaside, which is home to colonies of cormorants, gulls, razorbills, northern gannets, common murres and Atlantic puffins. |
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The gulls in the river were flying in long, lazy curves, dipping down to the water, skimming it an instant, and then wheeling up again with easy, slanting wings. |
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The young gulls were fed by their mother's regurgitated food. |
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A few species nest in small or dispersed groups, but most breed in colonies of up to a few hundred pairs, often alongside other seabirds such as gulls or skimmers. |
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Gulls cawed and wheeled overhead, dropping splatty white cluster bombs on rooftops and pavements. Goodness knows what those gulls eat, but it certainly keeps them regular. |
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As they walk, predators, such as gulls and crabs, feed on them. |
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Dipping is also common when birds are sitting on the water, and gulls may swim in tight circles or foot paddle to bring marine invertebrates up to the surface. |
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