Gull
There is no such thing as a “seagull”, they are all gulls.
Gull, any of more than 40 species of heavily built web-footed seabirds of the gull and tern family Laridae (order Charadriiformes). Several genera are usually recognized for certain specialized gulls, but many authorities place these in the broad genus Larus.
Conspicuous and gregarious, gulls are most abundant as breeders in the Northern Hemisphere, which has about 30 species in temperate to Arctic regions. They are mostly colonial ground nesters, and those that breed inland usually go to coasts in winter.
2. Ring Billed Gull
3. Laughing Gull.
Gulls are opportunists, a black skimmer egg or chick make fine meals for the gull. The gulls will approach a skimmer nesting area, one gull will go over the nesting area. The black skimmers will raise up to meet him and defend the nesting area. Another gull will then sneak in down low while the defenders are up and snatch an egg or a chick!
4. Gulls will also sit on a pelican’s head after the pelican
gets a fish hoping for a scrap or two.
5. It does not work very often, the pelican usually swallows
what he has caught. The pelican is helpless to stop the gull though.
6. Laughing gull.
7. Laughing gulls flying.
8. This herring gull sees the fish the osprey is eating and wants some.
The osprey leaves and the gull gets the scraps left behind.
8. Herring gull watching for food.
