Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus)
Scotland
The Black-headed Gull only acquires its black head during the breeding season.
Black-headed gull Larus ridibundus
Identification Tips:
Length: 13 inches
Small, tern-like gull
Short, thin bill
Undersurfaces of primaries are black (except outermost is white) ...
Black-headed Gull
Relatives in same Genus
Herring Gull (L. argentatus)
Laughing Gull (L. atricilla)
California Gull (L. californicus)
Mew Gull (L. canus)
Ring-billed Gull (L. delawarensis)
Heermann's Gull (L. heermanni)
Western Gull (L.
Black-headed Gull
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Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus) at Lake Mattamuskeet, Hyde Co., NC ...
Black-headed Gull
Larus ridibundus
The Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus) is a widespread and common Palearctic species ranging across most of northern Europe, Scandinavia and into Siberia.
Black-headed Gull
Both Sexes
White with silver-grey upperparts. In the summer, chocolate-brown head.
Larus ridibundus ...
Common Black-headed Gull
Larus ridibundus Linnaeus
Status Uncommon winter visitant. Records of this small, Old World gull have increased markedly in recent decades.
Common Black-headed Gull (Larus ridibundus) is a widespread winter visitor and passage migrant in India. Size: 38 cm ...
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Common Black-headed Gull
Larus ridibundus
Uncommon in winter on east coast. Usually seen near shore.,
Bonaparte's Gull
Larus philadelphia ...
Black-Headed Gull, Bonaparte's Rosy Gull, Sea Pigeon
Bird Family :
Larini - Gulls ...
Black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus)
Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
Jay (Garrulus glandarius)
Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
Blue tit (Parus caeruleus)
Magpie (Pica pica)
Shoveler (Anas clypeata)
Skylark (Alauda arvensis) ...
BLACK-HEADED GULL, Larus ridibundus, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. ix. p. 89.
LARUS ATRICILLA, Bonap. Syn., p. 359.
BLACK-HEADED GULL, Nutt. Man., vol. ii. p. 291.
BLACK-HEADED or LAUGHING GULL, Larus atricilla, Aud. Ord. Biog., vol. iv.p. 118.
Black-headed Gulls (Larus ridibundus) are elegant flyers indeed. The Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) is after our fish! Pictures: $
6 Other Birds ...
Common Black-headed Gull
Fall Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Herring Gull
Fall Sighting Information: abundant
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
This small, black-headed gull is an abundant breeding species of the Great Plains, ranging from southern Alberta to Manitoba and south along the adjoining northern USA. Isolated colonies also occur in Oregon, Idaho, Nevada and northern Alberta.
Among the other black-headed gulls, the Little Gull lacks the eye arcs, and Black-headed Gull, Franklin's Gull and Laughing Gull all have red or reddish bills.
4. Least Tern (Sterna antilarum) ...
Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus: Veteran's Memorial Pier, Brooklyn, NY, 20 Jan
Laughing Gull Chroicicephalus atricilla: Burlington, NJ, 10 Apr
Heermann's Gull Larus heermanni: whale watching from Newport Harbor, CA 04 Jan ...
* Black-headed Gull, Larus ridibundus
* Black-tailed Gull, Larus crassirostris
* Bonaparte's Gull, Larus philadelphia
* Brown-headed Gull, Larus brunnicephalus
* Brown-hooded Gull, Larus maculipennis
* California Gull, Larus californicus ...
Larus ichthyaetus Great black-headed gull
Larus leucophthalmus White-eyed gull
Larus livens Yellow-footed gull
Larus marinus Great black-backed gull
Larus melanocephalus Mediterranean gull
Larus minutus Little gull
Larus occidentalis Western gull ...
" One of only five black-headed gulls in North America, its light body, long wings, and buoyant flight make it look more like a tern.
Species Larus ridibundus (black-headed gull)
Species Larus saundersi (Saunders's gull)
Species Larus serranus (Andean gull) ...
The gull family (Laridae) includes the kittiwakes as well as familiar gulls such as the herring gull and the black-headed gull. Some types seem as at home in towns and cities as they are at the coast.
Scientific name: Laridae
Rank: Family ...
Immature Black-legged Kittiwakes have bold wing patterns that are similar to immature Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus but have a distinctive black collar. Immature Red-legged Kittiwakes lack a black tail band and dark carpal bar.
spring frolic, known as the Coot Custard Fair, said to have taken place annually at Horsey a century and more ago. For the celebration sweet foods were prepared from an abundance of eggs collected from the nests of coots and black-headed gulls and, ...
Saunders (loc. cit.) thinks that the larger of them, which is about the size of a black-headed gull, should stand as S. crepidatus, and the smaller as S.
Children accompanying their parents on Christmas shopping trips: take a tip from black-headed gull chicks, and team up with your siblings to increase pester power. (more).
 See also: Gull, Finch, Pigeon, Herring Gull, Sparrow
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