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Bird Sightings : Common Gull

Adult Common Gull in winter plumage

Common Gull

(Mew Gull)

Larus canus

Gaelic: Faoileag

 

Photograph © Debbie Bozkurt
Balivanich Lamp Post - Benbecula - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
29th October, 2006

 

Our Common Gull photographs:

Common Gull winter adult	Common Gull & leucistic Common Gull	Common Gull & leucistic Common Gull flight	Common Gull leucistic Flight

 

• Common Gull
• Larus canus
• Gaelic: Faoileag
• WI: Fairly common resident or migrant breeder (100 - 999 breeding pairs), and common passage visitor (regulary seen in good numbers)

 

 

Common Gull records in the Western Isles

Fairly common resident or migrant breeder (100 - 999 breeding pairs), and common passage 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 Common 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)

 

 

Other local bird photographs

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Debbie's online photo album

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