Breeding adult © Ricardo Doumecq Milieu eBird S37813862 Macaulay Library ML 61987351
Nonbreeding adult © Daniel Berbare
Second year © Steven Whitebread
Juvenile © Ricardo Doumecq Milieu
First year © Ricardo Doumecq Milieu
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Nonbreeding adult © Joao Quental JQuental
Breeding adult © Pablo G. Fernández🦅

Olrog's Gull Larus atlanticus

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Identification

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Large, dark-backed gull with a broad black band on a white tail. Breeding adults have mostly clean white bodies with black backs and wings. In the nonbreeding season, adults have a black hood and a broken white eye-ring. Immatures are very distinctive, with mottled gray-brown backs and brown breasts and heads with a white patch around the bill. Usually seen on the immediate coast, where it mostly eats crabs. During the austral winter, some migrate farther north.

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