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Birds seen on seashores in the UK: Herring Gull

Creagrus @ Monterey Bay - A Monterey County Mystery Gull
http://montereybay.com/creagrus/herring-gull-subid.html
Come to your own conclusions whether this is a juvenile herring gull or a pretender. Includes full written description and colour photography.
Greg Prelich’s Lab - Herring Gull
http://steelhead.aecom.yu.edu/birdwebphotos/Gulls/pages/Herring%20gull/
Find out about this common sea bird with predominantly white body, steel grey wings, and orange beak by analyzing colour image.
Hinterland Who’s Who - Bird Fact Sheets: Herring Gull http://www.hww.ca/hww2.asp?cid=7&id=49/
Learn about the gull that returns to the same nesting location for up to twenty years. Includes full physical description, habitats, habits, and range.
Jon Maloney’s Bird Pictures - Herring Gull 1
http://www.jdmpics.com/herring-gull-1.htm
Discover more about the physical attributes of the herring gull with this close-up photograph taken at Schoodic Point, Acadia National Park, Maine, USA (July 8, 1992).
Missouri Botanical Garden - Shorelines Animals: Herring Gull http://mbgnet.mobot.org/salt/sandy/animals/gull.html
Study concise data on the most common gull in Europe and America. Also includes map of the world showing distribution.
Northeast Fisheries Science Centre - Sea Birds: Herring Gull
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/femad/fishsamp/fsb/Images/Photo-SeaBirds/pages/Herring%20Gull.htm
Check out the aerodynamics of the herring gull with this colour image of bird in-flight. Photograph taken by Gina Repuucci from the Fisheries Sampling Branch.
Norwegian Cyberbirding - Presumed Larus Hyperboreus x Argentatus
http://cyberbirding.uib.no/gull/ufo/hybrid_1w_26/
Browse set of colour photographs of probable glaucous x herring gull hybrids. Images include bird standing, in-flight, and as family group.
Nova Scotia Museum - Herring Gull
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/nature/nsbirds/bns0175.htm
Publishes profile of sea bird that usually builds its nest on open ground from rotting vegetation and coarse weeds. Also view colour illustration of pair.
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, The - Herring Gull http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/h/herringgull/
Releases details about the scavenger that regularly feeds off rubbish tips. Also map of UK illustrating resident, summer, winter, and passage.
Rutgers University - Herring Gull Lead Toxicity
http://lifesci.rutgers.edu/~burger/herring.htm
Discover the effects of lead on the herring gull with the results of a ten year research program. Read about the changes in neurobehavioral development.

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