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
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
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
Vagrancy (biology)
…Southern elephant seal, a species of earless seals, photographed in South Africa. Laughing gull, a species of the Americas, photographed in Wales. Vagrancy is a phenomenon in biology whereby an individual animal (usually a bird) appears well outside…
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