Sentence examples for black-backed gull from inspiring English sources

The island also has significant breeding colonies of Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus), Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) and Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus).

He points out a young lesser black-backed gull, a female blackbird, a magpie.

But it was only there for about two hours before it got eaten by a great black-backed gull.

The great black-backed gull (L. marinus), with a wingspread of 1.6 metres (63 inches), is the largest gull.

The Herring Gull itself, for example, is involved in a "ring of races" with the Lesser Black-backed Gull.

Sheathbills, the southern black-backed gull, giant petrels, and skuas feed occasionally, as allowed, on other birds' unguarded eggs.

There are herring gulls, ring-billed gulls, lesser black-backed gulls and so on.

We are therefore reviewing whether the inclusion of lesser black-backed gulls on the general licences remains appropriate".

Not surprisingly, the jetty was desolate, except for a few black-backed gulls, hunkered down and looking miserable.

Look out along the cliffs, meanwhile, and you may see guillemots, razorbills, manx shearwaters, black-backed gulls, kittiwakes and fulmars.

The nesting great black-backed gulls took offense at its presence and three or four adults gave chase.