Black-headed Gull in winter dress

Posted by PeterFH (Gothenburg, Sweden) on 29 December 2008 in Animal & Insect.

In the winter the black head changes to white with black streaks.

Wikipedia writes:

This is a noisy species, especially at colonies, with a familiar "kree-ar" call. Its scientific name means "Laughing Gull".

The Black-headed Gull is the prefectural bird of Tokyo and the Yurikamome mass transit system is named after it.

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