Tag: yellow-legged gull

Birding

When the sea becomes a desert

June 23, 2024 by Clive Finlayson 8 Comments

I associate different times of the year with particular birds and bird movements. In some cases, I have been following these events since childhood...

Birding

The Changing Fortunes of Europe’s Vultures – Part 2

June 2, 2024 by Clive Finlayson 2 Comments

I left my previous article asking what of the Yellow-legged gulls that had alerted me to the presence of migrating vultures over Gibraltar? Yellow-legged...

Birds

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...

Conservation

Do you count gulls? But how?!?

November 12, 2015 by Dragan 2 Comments

Cover photo: Yellow-legged (left), Caspian Gull (right) – Courtesy of cro-ringing.blogspot.com How to count tens of thousands of birds that are all white below and...

News

Peace Bird FAIL

January 27, 2014 by Meredith Mann No Comments

So much for not killing the messenger. This past weekend at the Vatican, Pope Francis delivered an annual address appealing for global peace. With the...

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