- The
laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) is a medium-sized
gull of
North and
South America.
Named for its
laugh-like call, it is an
opportunistic omnivore...
-
gull, Heermann's
gull, the
various subspecies of
herring gull, the
laughing gull, the
lesser black-backed
gull, Sabine's
gull, the short-billed
gull,...
- to have
referred to a
gull or
other large seabird, and
cachinnans means '
laughing', from
cachinnare 'to
laugh'. It is a
large gull at 56–68 cm (22–27 in)...
- colonies, with a
familiar "kree-ar" call. Its
scientific name
means laughing gull. This
species takes two
years to
reach maturity. First-year
birds have...
-
herring gulls is most
readily done by the more
solidly dark (unbarred)
tertial feathers.
Their call is a "
laughing" cry like that of the
herring gull, but...
- back and
wings are much
darker grey than all
other gulls of
similar size
except the
larger laughing gull. The
wings have
black tips with an
adjacent white...
-
Gulls, or
colloquially seagulls, are
seabirds of the
family Laridae in the
suborder Lari. They are most
closely related to the
terns and
skimmers and...
- The
great black-backed
gull (Larus marinus) is the
largest member of the
gull family.
Described by the
Cornell Lab of
Ornithology as "the king of the Atlantic...
- ring-billed
gull (Larus delawarensis) is a medium-sized
gull. The
genus name is from
Latin Larus which appears to have
referred to a
gull or
other large...
- gull" group. It is most
closely related to the
Laughing gull and Franklin's
gull and is the
rarest gull in the world. It is
endemic to the
Galapagos Islands...
