#black headed gull

[pandorama-art]

black headed gull!

[scottpartridge]

It’s the final day of birbfest2025. In addition to the Spotted Pardalote, I’m posting prompts I’ve already shared in previous months.

[ornithological]

european herring gull (larus argentatus) and black-headed gull (chroicocephalus ridibundus), ireland

[michaelnordeman]

City birds: Mallard/gräsand, Rook/råka, Eurasian coot/sothöna, Black-headed gull/skrattmås, European herring gull/gråtrut and Mute swan/knölsvan. Dublin, Ireland (July 31, 2022).

[hocooart]

Birds of Week 7~

[bens-birds]

Mediterranean Gull (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus) with Black-Headed Gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)

Nimmo's Pier, Co. Galway - 16-07-2024

Big fan of these guys

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Oslo, Norway

[kavohh707]

A black-headed gull walking on ice, quite well considering how slippery the ice can be.

[proton-wobbler]

Great Backyard Bird Off - Cosmopolitan Birds (poll 3)

Bird Info & Submission Reasons

Black-Headed Gull (Chroicocephalus Ridibundus)

Continents: Europe, Asia, North America, Africa

"They're the only gull I can confidently identify (including Winter plumage)"

Fairly small gull, common and widespread across Eurasia. All plumages have big white blaze on leading edge of wing. Breeding adult has dark brown (not black) hood, red bill and legs; nonbreeding and immature have dark ear spot on white head, dark tip to red bill. Juvenile has mottled brownish back, which molts to pale gray by winter. Can be found in essentially any wet habitat, from duck ponds and farm fields to wild wetlands and seacoasts. Locally occurs in flocks of hundreds, sometimes thousands. Rare but regular vagrant to North America, especially in the northeast, where usually seen singly among flocks of Bonaparte’s or Ring-billed Gulls. (eBird)

Bohemian waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Continents: North America, Europe, Asia

"There's a flock of them that shows up in my neighbourhood every autumn/winter to eat the berries from the hedges"

Plump, smooth-plumaged bird with a sleek crest and white and yellow markings on wings. Mostly clean gray with brighter rusty wash on the face. Look for rich rufous undertail. Breeds in open coniferous forests at high latitudes across the Northern Hemisphere. Winter range depends on fruit crops; sometimes descends much further south in large numbers. Often found in flocks feasting on fruiting trees like crabapple and mountain ash. Listen for their ringing trills, often given while flying overhead. (eBird)

Image Sources: Gull (Alexis Lours); Waxwing (Daniel Jauvin)

[plumes-merry-critters]

"Friend gull knowing the magpies are too fast to let them catch a peanut" - January 2022

[elleskinner-justart]

Birbfest Day 30: Black headed Gull

Birbfest Day 31: Spotted Pardalote

Ran out of commentary after this many bird drawings in a row, so excuse me as I simply gesture and say LOOK, BIRDS, I DREW THEM GOOD.

Thanks for following along with me this month!

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patreon | kofi

[cat-on-a-log]

Anti-Clockwise Metamorphosis.

[scottpartridge]

Day 23 of #birdtober2023 from @aholmesartstudio is Black-Headed Gull.

[redrcs]

X-Ray.

Black Headed Gull. Turkey

[michaelnordeman]

Black-headed gull/skrattmås. Värmland, Sweden (June 29, 2018).

[draculavian]

birdtober day 19-24! using the list made by Aholmesartstudio on instagram!