Common Seagull
by Marcia Lee Jones
Title
Common Seagull
Artist
Marcia Lee Jones
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Adult common gulls are 40�46 cm long, noticeably smaller than the herring gull, and slightly smaller than the ring-billed gull, also differing from the latter in its shorter, more tapered bill with a more greenish shade of yellow, as well as being unmarked during the breeding season. The body is grey above and white below. The legs are greenish-yellow. In winter, the head is streaked grey, and the bill often has a poorly defined blackish band near the tip (sometimes sufficiently obvious to cause confusion with ring-billed gull). They have black wingtips with large white "mirrors". Young birds have scaly black-brown upperparts and a neat wing pattern, and grey legs. They take two to three years to reach maturity. The call is a high-pitched "laughing" cry.
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October 19th, 2015
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Nancy Griswold
Great capture and description, I love the seaweed contrasting in the image, it is so beautiful
Gary Slawsky
Really like the dark tones and bright bird. Placement of bird is great. F/L and on of my POD for 10/19.
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