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Larus marinus - white gull having a black back and wings

black-backed gull, great black-backed gull, cob

sea gull, seagull, gull - mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs

genus Larus, Larus - type genus of the Laridae

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In addition, 2%-10% of the wintering population of great black-backed gulls (Larus marinus) and 11%-39% of the wintering population of peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) were similarly affected.

Deaths among Wild Birds during Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N8) Virus Outbreak, the Netherlands

(1996), eight species of gulls may occur in northern Norway: Mew Gull, Larus canus\ Great Black-backed Gull, Larus marinus; Glaucous Gull, Larus hyperboreus; Iceland Gull, Larus glaucoides; Herring Gull, Larus argentatus; Lesser Black-backed Gull, Larus fuscus\ Black-headed Gull, Chroicocephalus ridibundus\ and Little Gull, Hydrocoloeus minutus.

Identification of bird species used to make a Viking Age feather pillow

The Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus), which had a distribution of colony sizes much like Sabine's Gull on the YKD, tended to forage close to the nest.

Sabine's gull (Xema sabini) nesting aggregations in Western Alaska

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