Tag: gull

Blogging, Terminology

Trash birds

July 6, 2024 by Peter 2 Comments

We all know and use the derogatory term trash birds link. When I recently put in a comment of “wanting to write a post...

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Come@Me: Watching Gulls is for Weirdos

June 28, 2018 by Dragan 4 Comments

Who is eyeing gulls? I sure didn’t, for many years. Too simple. White and grey? Colouristically mediocre. Not even 60 species worldwide? Too easy....

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Borderline of Countable

January 19, 2017 by Dragan No Comments

As usual at this time of year, I visited the city landfill to look for gulls. To be honest, mostly to look for one...

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Heermann’s Gull – A Mexican Beauty

April 27, 2016 by Tom Brown 3 Comments

La Paz, Mexico has a beautiful well maintained sidewalk along its waterfront called a malecón. While it is exceptionally well used by joggers, bike...

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The mother of all large white-headed gulls: The European Herring Gull

April 3, 2016 by Jochen 5 Comments

Now finally, here is the third and last part of my mini-series on the taxonomic offspring of the Herring Gull, in which I’ll cover the...

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New Zealand Loses Another Endemic

March 23, 2016 by Duncan No Comments

I almost missed it, but New Zealand lost another endemic species recently. Now I’ve written before about how careless this country is with species,...