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Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Black-headed Gull

Adult Black-headed Gull in winter plumage

Black-headed Gull

Larus ridibundus

Gaelic: Faoileag-a'chinn-dhuibh, Ceann-dubhan

Photograph © Debbie Bozkurt
Stinky Bay - Benbecula - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
30th December, 2006

 

Our Black-headed Gull photographs

Black-headed Gull summer adult	Black-headed Gull winter adult

 

• Black-headed Gull
• Larus ridibundus
• Gaelic: Faoileag-a'chinn-dhuibh, Ceann-dubhan
• WI: Fairly common migrant breeder (100 - 999 breeding pairs), and winter visitor (regulary seen in good numbers)

 

 

Black-headed Gull records in the Western Isles

Fairly common migrant breeder (100 - 999 breeding pairs), and winter visitor (regulary seen in good numbers)
Source: Outer Hebrides Bird Report (2001)

On the chart below the darker the shade of blue the more abundant the Black-headed Gull is during a month or the more likely you are to see it.

J	F	M	A	M	J	J	A	S	O	N	D

(Source: Outer Hebrides Birds Checklist)

 

 

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