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Southern Black-backed Gull

Larus dominicanus

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Field Notes

Notes:

The gull is eyeing us from the head of John Robert Godley in Cathedral Square in Christchurch. The statue fell down in the Canterbury Earthquake February 2011.

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PublishedJanuary 22, 2012

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