Bird Sightings: Sabine's Gull

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Bird Sightings: Sabine's Gull

Sabine's Gull

Larus sabini

Photography © Martin Scott
Shawbost - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
September, 2007

Passage visitor

140 annual UK records

Breeds: Arctic (forms colonies)

Winters: Pacific and Atlantic Ocean

Habitat: Coastal wet heath during breding season, mostly at sea otherwise

Diet: Fish and small invertebrates

Smaller than a black-headed gull

Juvenile sounds like a young tern

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