herring gull in English

noun
1
a gull with gray black-tipped wings, abundant and widespread in both Eurasia and North America.
J. A. Allen dispelled the notion that two species of Herring Gull exist, the American and the European herring gull .

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1. This species also hybridizes regularly with the herring gull in Alaska.

2. A very tame herring gull perched on the rail throughout most of the crossing.

3. There was a seal there in some water, a great herring gull with a damaged foot, and other creatures.

4. 30 There was a seal there in some water, a great herring gull with a damaged foot, and other creatures.

5. Up in the hills are the gull colonies, herring gull and lesser black-backed, on the shores of inland windswept lochs.

6. The Avocets in the water fly up and join another already harassing a herring gull, which circles the island in hungry curiosity, but the gull soon flies off in the face of the dive-bombing onslaught.

7. Braune and Norstrom (1989) used field data on body burdens of HCB in the herring gull (Larus argentatus) and one of its principal food items, the alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) in a Great Lakes food chain to calculate a biomagnification factor (whole body, wet weight basis) of 31. 2.3.2 Concentrations