lesser black-backed gull
larus fuscus latin

Local wildlife includes cormorants, lesser black-backed gulls and song thrushes.

Randolph's Leap is also an important wildlife area, with lesser black-backed gulls, woodpeckers and red squirrels.

Response: This is a second-winter lesser black-backed gull, Larus fuscus.

Lesser Black-backed Gulls nest on the cliffs periodically, as do Black Redstarts.

They will be replaced by lesser black-backed gulls, the only Shetland breeding gull which entirely deserts the islands in winter.

There are herring gulls, ring-billed gulls, lesser black-backed gulls and so on.

The back and wings are dark grey, variable in shade but often similar to the graelsii race of the slightly smaller Lesser Black-backed Gull.

Lesser Black-backed Gull (L fuscus)

The adult Lesser Black-backed Gull is distinctly smaller, typically weighing about half as much as a Great Black-back.

The taxonomy of the Herring Gull / Lesser Black-backed Gull group is very complicated.

The second-winter lesser black-backed gull can be distinguished from second-winter individuals of these large gull species that are found in the same part of Africa:

Lesser black-backed gull bred on Gugh but with low chick productivity, and the small colony of kittiwake nested, but failed for at least the fourth year.

They have a grey back, slightly darker than Herring Gulls but lighter than Lesser Black-backed Gulls.

Refuse tips are frequented by large numbers of gulls and the few wintering Lesser Black-backed Gulls are usually found at these sites, often inland.

One to four pairs have attempted to breed in southern England since 1995 (sometimes hybrid pairs with Lesser Black-backed Gulls), though colonisation has been very slow.

It is closely related to the Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) and is often classified as a subspecies of it.

Especially common are the razorbill, the surf scoter, the black scoter, the long-tailed duck, the red-throated loon, the common loon, and the lesser black-backed gull.

The Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) is a large gull that breeds on the Atlantic coasts of Europe.

Those are the herring gull and the lesser black-backed gull, which are two terminal links in a series of forms which sort of form a ring around the pole.

There is a red ring around the eye like in the Lesser Black-backed Gull but unlike in the Herring Gull which has a dark yellow ring.

There are also large colonies of Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Herring Gulls and Great Black-backed Gulls.

The following species also breed: Atlantic Puffin, Black-legged Kittiwake, Herring Gull and Lesser Black-backed Gull.

Twelve species nest here, of which two, European Storm-petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) and Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) have nationally important breeding populations.

LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL.

Several miles long, it is the most important shingle spit in Europe in terms of the vegetation it provides for wildlife, attracting little terns, lesser black-backed gulls and other uncommon birds.

It is closely related to the Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) and is often classified as a subspecies of it.

The Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) is a large gull that breeds on the Atlantic coasts of Europe.

LESSER BLACK-BACK Larus fuscus.

Twelve species nest here, of which two, European Storm-petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) and Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) have nationally important breeding populations.

Lesser numbers of Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus, Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus and Common Shag Phalacrocorax aristotelis are also to be found.