July 11, 2016: European Herring Gulls, Blyth South Harbour, Northumberland, UK.

Herring gulls are large, noisy gulls found throughout the year around our English coast and inland around rubbish tips, fields, large reservoirs and lakes, especially during winter.  Adults have light grey backs, white under parts, and black wing tips with white ‘mirrors’.  Their legs are pink, with webbed feet and they have heavy, slightly hooked bills marked with a red spot.  Young birds are mottled brown. They have suffered moderate declines over the past 25 years and over half of their UK breeding population is confined to fewer than ten sites.

These are images of an adult gull regurgitating food to its young:

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