Juvenile Great Black-backed Gull in Flight
by Dawn Currie
Title
Juvenile Great Black-backed Gull in Flight
Artist
Dawn Currie
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
Photographic artwork by Dawn Currie. Juvenile Great Black-Backed Gull flying along the surf off the coast of Sebastian Inlet State Park.
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Cornell Lab of Ornithology calls this bird "The king of the Atlantic waterfront". The Great Black-backed Gull is the largest gull in the world, with a powerful build and a domineering attitude. They harry other birds to steal their food and even hunt adult birds such as grebes and puffins. Adults are handsome with broad black wings, gleaming white head, and big yellow bill. North American populations were once severely threatened by the feather trade, but numbers rebounded in the twentieth century and they are now a common East Coast sight.
Adults are white with slaty-black upper-wings and backs. They have dull pink legs, a yellow bill with a red spot near the tip, and dark eyes. Juveniles are checkered gray-brown and white above; they have white-based, black-tipped tails, black bills, and blackish flight feathers. Over about 4 years, these crisp, cold-toned gulls transition to dark backed adults.
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April 5th, 2017
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William Tasker
Absolutely stunning, Dawn! Such detail in those wings! Your beautiful image has been featured by Wild Birds Of The World. L/F