Laughing gull
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The laughing gull is a medium-sized gull of North and South America. Named from its laugh-like call, it is an opportunistic omnivore and scavenger. It breeds in large colonies mostly along the Atlanti
Leucophaeus atricilla Caye Caulker 04
Leucophaeus atricilla atricilla, first-winter; Colon, Panama. Note the black tail from which the epithet atricilla derives.
Adult summer plumage, in flight
Summer (breeding) plumage includes black head and dark red bill
Vagrancy (biology)
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Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby an individual animal appears well outside its normal range; such an animal is a vagrant. The term accidental is sometimes also used. There are a number of p
Laughing gull
…North America, the Caribbean, and northern South America. Northernmost populations migrate farther south in winter, and this species occurs as a rare vagrant to western Europe. Laughing gulls nest from mid to late May in the north of their range and from late April in the south. They nest in colonies which…
Southern elephant seal, a species of earless seals, photographed in South Africa.
Laughing gull, a species of the Americas, photographed in Wales.
Vagrant birds in unfamiliar habitats may end up dying from stress or a lack of food, as happened to this great shearwater that was found at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Lake Michigan