Gull watcher

lover of gulls (and other sea birds) ☆ follows from @inemberrain

[herpsandbirds]

R - Pyrrhuloxia (Cardinalis sinuatus), male, and L - Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis), male, family Cardinalidae, order Passeriformes, Texas, USA

Photograph by Gerry Sibell

[etourvol]

a comic about how ebird's description of snow petrel is like a poem to me

[greycatbird]

Ladies get off tiktok we need you over on ebird

[herpsandbirds]

Brown Skua or Subantarctic Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus), EAT A TASRT FISH!!!, family Stercorariidae, order Charadriiformes, Hout Bay, South Africa

photograph by Trevor Hardaker

[todaysbird]

Good thing we’ve definitely got people in office who will get on this! (By rapidly making the problems worse)

[todaysbird]

[ornithological]

manx shearwater (puffinus puffinus), ireland

[riverwindphotography]

Harlequin ducks are quite interesting to observe.

(c) gifs by riverwindphotography, May 2026

[idionymon]

catching up after 50,000,000 years or so and you say "you BETTER not have been skimming" and I turn my camera on and my beak looks like this

[inemberrain]

Who me?

[great-and-small]

Here’s the black skimmer feeding behavior in action! Their lower bill is quite sensitive and can snap closed the instant they hit on prey. I’m always amazed with how swiftly they skim. The beak MOST unique!

[57amp3r]

Birds on the wing, Lundy, Bristol Channel, Devon, 1951

[larus-hyperboreus]

Finally getting into my gull guide book and this thing is gorgeous and wonderful and amazing and I'm only on page 7

[larus-hyperboreus]

I have a sleepy cat helping me too

[larus-hyperboreus]

Finally getting into my gull guide book and this thing is gorgeous and wonderful and amazing and I'm only on page 7

[snototter]

A great black-backed gull (Larus marinus) with a crustacean snack in Canada

by Dash Huang

[larus-hyperboreus]

American Herring Gull (Larus smithsonianus)

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Great Black-backed Gull Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1

[raw-wild]

I received a stark reminder that these idyllic suburban ponds are not Disney Cartoon-style peaceful utopias. There are life and death struggles - nature - going on in our neighborhoods. This recidivist great black-backed gull has apparently developed a taste for hooded hens in this diverse pond.

Hooded Merganser & Great Black-backed Gull | Ken Stevenson

[herpsandbirds]

Spectacled Petrel (Procellaria conspicillata), family Procellariidae, order Procelariiformes, found in the far South Atlantic

Nests only on an inaccessible island in the Tristan da Cunha islands.

photographs by Michael Mason