Black-headed Gull (winter)
Chroicocephalus ridibundus
51.8898, 0.901235
Field Notes
Description:
A smallish, bold gull that is fairly common in the UK. Usually seen in groups, very noisy and fight among themselves a lot! In the summer, they have a chocolate brown head, but at this time of the year, there is only a little dark smudge behind the eye.
Habitat:
Found along coasts, rivers, estuaries, and very common inland also.
Notes:
There was a large group of these gulls floating on the lakes at the University of Essex campus, this one came particularly close and let me take a nice portrait!
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedNovember 24, 2011
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