Breeding adult © Stephen Menzie eBird S42642792 Macaulay Library ML 85358341
Nonbreeding adult © Bhaarat Vyas
First year © AVINASH SHARMA
Juvenile © Biswanath Mondal
Nonbreeding adult © Markus Craig
+ 3
Second year © Ric Else
First year © Ric Else

veliki crnoglavi galeb Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus

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Identification

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Large powerful gull of saline, brackish, and fresh water bodies. Breeding adult has a black head with a thin incomplete crescent around the eye and a red-and-black-tipped bill. Nonbreeding adults retain a partial “hood” of patchy black on the back of the head. Young birds also have this dark patch, though it is much smaller in size. The eye crescents and a flashing white rump help to distinguish first-winter birds from Herring-type gulls. Can be readily separated by size in any plumage from the smaller dark-headed gulls.

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