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Sentence Examples As well as many types of gull you will see eider ducks, mergansers, black guillemots shags and cormorants. The gull waited until she had come close enough, and then nipped at her fingers. The red-billed gull is listed as a nationally vulnerable New Zealand bird on the list of threatened birds. The dump is a big draw to gulls and crows and I'm sure I'll see something good in the gull department. A loud squawk startled her, and she looked up to find the gull hanging over the drop-off and glaring at her in what looked like exasperation. She watched as the gray mantled gull swooped down and greedily ate the smashed contents of the shattered clamshell. This change might affect the migration and reproductive ecology of the ivory gull and other seabirds in the High Arctic. Black-headed gull and herring gull belong to the same family and are obviously more closely related than the other two species pairs. Each occasion a large gull or carrion crow passed overhead, the buntings took all wing, providing a most impressive spectacle. As soon as de Rosarieux's line hits the water, a mottled herring gull lands on the prow, inches away, waiting for the first fish. Among the nearly 200 species found here are thicket tinamou, brown pelican, osprey, king vulture, and laughing gull. A gull will land on the back of a surfaced whale and rip at its flesh and blubber. The same gull hovered over the next green, but was driven away by the irate golfers. It is part of a complex of closely related gull species that interbreed readily. Hermes flies like a gull over the crests of waves and arrives at the home of Calypso. Rolan looked away into the distance of grey as a sea gull shrilled into the sky. This gull has a slate-gray back, a white belly and tail, and black wingtips. This gull has narrow wings, a slender, black, pin-like bill, and pink legs. After 50 years, members of the Huna Tlingit people can finally collect harvest sea gull eggs again in glacier National Park. At this point, he also observed a gull pass in close proximity to the left side of the aircraft. Show More Sentences Witnesses saw the technician pick up live gull fledglings and place them into a plastic bag. Since 2003, there has been stability in the population of the herring gull and a decrease in the common murre and the Atlantic puffin. The Thayer's Gull is a large gull, with typical gull-like plumage. A pelagic gull, this kittiwake spends most of the year at sea. The occasional white gull winging its way through the air, the gentle splash of water against the hull, that's all there was to draw our attention away from each other. In class tally up the number of grey circles each minnow, lake trout and herring gull has in their possession. The body coloration is typical of gull plumage from above, but both breeding and non-breeding adults have dark underwings with pale wingtips, which are distinctive in flight. The term was coined by Nobel prizewinner Niko Tinbergen in his study of herring gull behaviour. A gull cawed overhead to cry good morning to this strange tented visitor, while the sea whispered in the distance. In some ways, there are breeds of gull and sea bird who are light years ahead of us on the long-term commitment front and don't seem to have the same issues that we do. Additional pressure on gull populations resulted from the millinery trade's demand for bird feathers, which were fashionable decorations on hats. Any bounty from the sea was welcome, and gull eggs and young were worth considerable exertion. The evidence on the runway and in the left engine indicates that a gull or gulls were ingested by the left engine. I remember climbing over shipwrecks, bending close to inspect a motionless herring gull, then the long hike away from him, headed north, up the endless beach. Its shape was that of a gull drawn by a child with a soft hand and sense of things aesthetic and it smelled lightly of sandalwood as he drew near us. The landing gear attachment was positioned at the lowest point of the inverted gull section, which gave adequate ground clearance for the propeller. Changes in gull diets were detected in all of the Great Lakes and were related to declines in the availability of aquatic foods. So if a species such as the ivory gull, for example, occurs in Nunavut, we have a special process that we must follow to engage with the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board to respect the NLC decision-making process. Unlike other gull chicks which wander around as soon as they can walk, kittiwake chicks instinctively sit still in the nest to avoid falling off. Many species of gull will feed on seabird and sea mammal carrion when the opportunity arises, as will giant petrels. Show More Sentences North American birds the laughing gull, Franklin's gull and the chimney swift have also been spotted recently. A Kamchatka mew gull from Siberia recently appeared on Nantucket, along with a little gull, black-headed gull, and red phalarope. A juvenile glaucous gull showed well at Foryd Bay, having been seen last week in Caernarfon. A juvenile glaucous gull flew past the Point, while at least three different individuals were in the Menai Strait. The Great Black-backed Gull is a very large gull which breeds on the European and North American coasts and islands of the North Atlantic. They usually sneak out of the nest under the cover of darkness to avoid predators such as the black-backed gull and the great skua. An impressive 12 greenshanks were with a yellow-legged gull on the Dee at Connah's Quay, and hobbies were seen at both sites. The gull usually winters within the drift ice of the Arctic waters and along the pack ice of the northern Atlantic. The territorial European herring gull has caused deaths and serious head injuries to humans. Funding for further gull and feral pigeon management is subject to the outcome of this consultation. Most gull species are migratory, with birds moving to warmer habitats during the winter, but the extent to which they migrate varies by species. Some migrate long distances, like Franklin's gull, which migrates from Canada to wintering grounds in the south of South America. Within colonies, gull pairs are territorial, defending an area of varying size around the nesting site from others of their species. Hybridisation between species of gull occurs quite frequently, although to varying degrees depending on the species involved. A gull will sometimes stand on the pelican's head, peck it to distraction, and grab a fish from the open bill. Seabirds: Herring gull, common shag, atlantic puffin, common murre, pied oystercatcher, northern gannet, several gull species, northern fulmar, manx shearwater, common tern. It was an inopportune moment to draw attention to the gull situation. When you think of a seagull this is the gull most people picture. Seeing that gull chicks pecked at the yellow-orange dot on their parent's beak to make the parent regurgitate food for them, Tinbergen presented the chicks with even bigger yellow-orange dots. They stand to gain, in one way or another, from conspiring to gull the public into regarding competition as a threat to the greater good, rather than to themselves. Show More Sentences I also found a black-headed gull and a Ringed Plover caught in the unused fishing line resulting in their death. A few species vary in this, the ivory gull is entirely white, and some like the lava gull and Heermann's gull have partly or entirely grey bodies. Back home, we learned a laughing gull had been spotted at Porthmadog. The head of a gull may be covered by a dark hood or be entirely white. Loss of polar ice habitat is causing a rapid decline in the numbers of ivory gull, Pacific walrus, ringed seal, hooded seal, narwhal, and polar bear. Dubai A black-headed gull had birdwatchers in disbelief last week, after it turned out to be a rare and almost unheard of visitor to the Middle East. This is a list of gull species, presented in taxonomic sequence. The third series, due for release on August 11, includes gannet, ringed plover, grey glover, golden plover, greenshank, curlew, herring gull and great black-backed gull. Colonies can vary from just a few pairs to over a hundred thousand pairs, and may be exclusive to that gull species or shared with other seabird species. A hefty Pallas's gull, may cast a glacial eye at them, winging slowly past, its intentions piratical. Other species, such as the California gull, nest and feed inland on lakes, and then move to the coasts in the winter. Migrant birds like cursoirus cursor, gull, starling, blackbird, duck, waterhen and sand grouse. We dined on squab, which I suspected of having started out in life as nonlaughing sea gull, listened to the current palaver in the bar and said good night. Second most spotted was the starling, followed by the black-headed gull. As scarlet tanager, indigo bunting, laughing gull, trumpeter swan. Many species breed in coastal colonies, with a preference for islands, and one species, the grey gull, breeds in the interior of dry deserts far from water. Examples from Classical Literature Some of the gulls, like the great black-backed gull, attain a length of two and one-half feet. I can sprawl on that seaweed and be as comfortable as a gull on a clam flat. The gull flapped his wings violently once or twice, then turned over and floated away, belly up, quite dead. Owing to the great diversity of its haunts the black-headed gull is almost omnivorous in its diet. The black-headed gull derives its name from the black patch on its head, which, however only appears during the breeding season. The black-headed gull entirely loses the black colour on the head during winter. We have already described the colonies of the black-headed gull in previous works, so that but few details are needed here. With wide-open engines, she struck the sea gull amidships, full on the beam. It was almost here he remembered suddenly that the sea gull had been wrecked. A sea gull of corresponding color is on the sand, seeking what it may devour. Of all the pets a fisherman might have, surely a sea gull was the most fitting. The glaucous gull is sufficiently strong to be able to defend its eggs and young against the attack of the mountain fox. Still more common than the glaucous gull in the lands of the High North is kryckian, the kittiwake. This species is one of the largest and most powerful of the gull family, only surpassed by the great black-backed gull. It seemed to me, forsooth, that a great black-backed gull or fierce skua would give me a fine flight or two. Very soon he had an opportunity of assisting to gull the public on a great scale. The herring gull is a large and powerful bird, thoroughly competent to dispose of a herring or even a more bulky fish. You cannot generalise from the actions of an individual as you may safely do in the case of a titlark or a gull or a donkey. The gull begins to lay about the middle of May, and usually ten days before the murre. The gull is soon through, but the murre continues to lay for about two months. Show More Sentences Finding who they were, he invited them to bring their luncheon and row over to little gull Island with him, to see the lighthouse. How do you know which is the black-headed gull in the summer months? It was a herring gull in mature plumage, and its wing was broken. Could not a single gull or ptarmigan find a resting-place there? His wild, laughing cry has given him the nickname of laughing gull. A sea gull poised a moment above them and broke into a laugh. A white-winged gull flew by, with the flash of sunshine on its silvery breast. It's easy to gull you, for you can't see any further than a child of five. But a gull is an air-ship that can sink whenever it chooses. Overhead the sharp scream of a gull cut through the stillness. The black-headed gull is by far the commonest of these winter visitors. One great gray bird, a gull or curlew, soared aloft in the blue heaven. Another bird which is an enemy to both salmon and trout in their fry stage is the black-headed gull. Then there are the two small species, the common and the black-headed gull. Hoveton little Broad is a breeding-place of the black-headed gull, which nest here in great numbers. This is especially the case with the black-headed gull, and the various species of Terns. At Barrier Lake we observed three long-tailed jaegers, all chasing and harassing a glaucous gull. Then he sighed, picked up his pencil and turned again to the drawing of the gull. Always he appeared a white dot on the blue horizon, like the flash of a gull. He dreamed of building an airplane with metal, wood and fabric to emulate the sinewed, feathered grace of a soaring gull. Show More Sentences But to return from this digression to the general habits of the herring gull. These eggs are large in size, and very closely resemble those of the herring gull. The male was a magnificent blue-gray bird, whose white under-wings were tipped with black like those of a herring gull. Young birds are mottled grayish brown and white, of varying shades, but always lighter than the young of the herring gull. No, it is no gull, it is the wonder-ship flying along with billowing sails. One lifted his arm and pointed seaward in the direction of the sea gull. The tern, a bird resembling the gull, but more slender and swift. He was a herring gull, and one of the largest I have ever seen. Find more words! 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