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I never upload to this blog anymore but I wanted to share some pics bc today I had my first birdwatching boat trip and it was insane

I literally spend 3 of the 4 hours like this 😧 looking at everything LMAO, the audouin gulls specially were flying a meter away from you making direct eye contact and the number of yellow leggeds was huge... Apparently we had an incredibly good number of shearwaters (balearic, cory's and scopoli's) and they flew so so close to the boat for a really long time. I felt really emotional when I saw them hovering over the water upclose, it's so magical the way they do it. I didn't get any good pictures of them specifically but you can see them here and there in some of the photos

We also saw a European storm petrel, a parasitic jaeger (I was expecting more in number, and hopefully a long tailed but no luck; still super good views of it) and the cherry on top a 1st summer caspian gull 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 I'm so so happy with the trip and I can't wait to get on a boat

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A new variant has been added!

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) © H. L. Meyer

It hatches from common, dark, difficult, heavy, large, last, long, other, regular, slender, whitish, and yellow eggs.

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February 28, 2020 - Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus)

Breeding in northern Eurasia, including Iceland, as well as in Greenland, these gulls winter along the coasts of western and southern Europe, much of Africa, and parts of South and east Asia. They are also winter visitors to the eastern coast of North America. Their diverse diet includes small fish, aquatic invertebrates, the eggs and chicks of other birds, rodents, berries, seeds, carrion, and garbage. Breeding in colonies, they nest in depressions on the ground in mounds of seaweed, grasses, and other materials, or in shallow scrapes.

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Some gulls. (Ring-billed, Laughing, and Lesser Black-backed)

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Gull decline on Scottish island linked to decline in fishing discards

The research, published in the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) journal Bird Study, looked at the breeding populations of three species of large gull; Herring Gull, Great Black-backed Gull and Lesser Black-backed Gull on the Hebridean island of Canna, and the relationship between these gull populations and the fall in the quantity of fish landed in the nearby harbour of Mallaig.

Between 1985 and 2000 an annual average of 13,726 tonnes of fish was landed in Mallaig. However, between 2007 and 2014 this had fallen to 4,456 tonnes. This has apparently had a profound effect on the Canna gull population. The number of breeding pairs of Herring Gulls peaked at 1,525 in 1988, Great Black-backed Gulls reached 90 pairs around the same time and the highest number of Lesser Black-backed Gulls was recorded at 63 pairs.

At the latest count around 130 pairs of gulls bred on Canna in total, comprising of up to 95 pairs of Herring Gulls, 18 pairs of Great Black-backed Gulls and 13 pairs of Lesser Black-backed Gulls. This population decline has also been associated with low breeding success, with only a small number of chicks successfully fledging in more recent years.

Simon Foster, lead author on the paper, said "The Canna seabird study is one of the longest running annual studies in the world. It is an enormous privilege to be part of the team of highly skilled, dedicated volunteers who have been collecting the data for over 48 years. This has allowed us to track the changing fortunes of seabirds. The gull data are interesting – if you look over a short time period you can see large changes, however over a longer period and using anecdotal information from the 1930s it becomes apparent that Canna gulls may be returning to more normal, albeit lower levels."

Dr Viola Ross Smith, gull expert at the BTO, said "Breeding gulls have a bad reputation, especially in urban areas. However, it is worth remembering that all these species are classed as Birds of Conservation Concern, and the Herring Gull is on the Red List. It therefore seems important to identify the causes of population decline in rural colonies such as Canna, and find ways to conserve the birds at these sites, especially since gulls that fail to breed successfully are known to seek breeding opportunities elsewhere, including in towns and cities".