Great Black-backed Gull
Larus marinus
Summary 2
Most foods are swallowed whole, including most fish and even other gulls. When foods are too large to be swallowed at once, they will sometimes be shaken in the bill until they fall apart into pieces. Like some other gulls, when capturing molluscs or other hard-surfaced foods such as eggs, they will fly into the air with it and drop it on rocks or hard earth to crack it open. Alternate foods, including berries and insects,...
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- (c) Roger Butterfield, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/54601101@N00/21482296
- (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larus_marinus
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iNat Map
| Color | black, grey, white |
|---|---|
| 1.class | Birds |
| 2.order | Shorebirds |
