glaucous gull
larus hyperboreus latin

It is much scarcer in Europe than the similar Glaucous Gull.

Breeding Glaucous Gulls represent about 1% of the Canadian population.

Sea birds include glaucous gulls, arctic terns, long-tailed jaegers and common murres.

Immatures are very pale grey; the bill is more extensively dark than with Glaucous Gull, and lacks pink.

Glaucous Gull and Northern Fulmar frequent its cliffs and shoreline.

During the pupping season, arctic fox and glaucous gulls take ringed seal pups born outside lairs.

Two hours later, my foreboding proved right: we saw reindeer, as well as some glaucous gulls and eiders, but not a single fox showed itself.

'Glaucous gull at Salt house.'

As with most tips it used to be good for Gulls including visits from Iceland and Glaucous Gulls.

Glaucous Gull, Cornell Lab.

Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus)

Several animal species, particularly Arctic Foxes and Glaucous Gulls, routinely scavenge polar bear kills.

Their main predator is the Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus), and these feed exclusively on eggs and chicks.

Only a few other gulls, including Pallas's Gull and Glaucous Gull, come close to matching this species' size.

Colonies of Thayer's Gull and Glaucous Gull are located on one of the larger islands.

Glaucous gulls and any other northern stragglers such as Iceland and perhaps ivory gulls will drift off towards their Arctic breeding-grounds.

An exceptionally large Glaucous Gull was found outweigh any known Great Black-backed Gull, although usually that species is slightly smaller.

These include little auk, Black-legged Kittiwake, black guillemot, ivory gull, uria, charadriiformes and glaucous gull.

There is an established hierarchy: glaucous gulls at the top and northern fulmars, kittiwakes and guillemots stacked up underneath, and a strong smell of guano everywhere.

Herring Gull and Glaucous Gull hybridise to a limited extent in Greenland and Iceland.

"Subspecies of the Glaucous Gull, Larus-Hyperboreus", (Aves, Charadriiformes).

Similarly, glaucous gulls, though not particularly migratory, feed on human sources of food like dumps and carrion, and therefore pick up anthropogenic contaminants that could confound interpretation.

Notable bird species include Arctic Tern, Common Eider, Glaucous Gull, and Herring Gull.

It is smaller and thinner billed than the very large Glaucous Gull, and is usually smaller than the Herring Gull.

For example - Glaucous Gull, (Larus glaucescens) or Glaucous Macaw, (Anodorhynchus glaucus).

Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus)

Their main predator is the Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus), and these feed exclusively on eggs and chicks.

GLAUCOUS GULL Larus hyperboreus.

In his teens, he acquired specimens of Glaucous Gull Larus hyperboreus and Snowy Owl Bubo scandiacus, both later recognised as the first British records.

The Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) is a large gull which breeds in the Arctic regions of the northern hemisphere and the Atlantic coasts of Europe.

A 1960 account reports that Eskimo inhabitants of Little Diomede reported a Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) colony on Fairway Rock larger than that on Little Diomede.