Presented pictures of a Lesser Black-backed Gull were taken in Croatia and Italy. It is as common there as a Black-headed Gull is here. The difference being, it is so used to the presence of people and the feeding that I was swimming on a tourist boat, photographing them with 300mm lense, as they were flying around and begging for food. They are very agile on the fly and brave when feeding. Lesser Black-backed Gull is a large bird, as its weight can exceed 1 kilogram with a wingspan of a nearly 1 meter.
Last minute nevs-07/2015
I added some pictures of the lesser black-backed gull which I took during the ferry crossing in the Netherlands. Unfortunately the sharp midday light and big contrasts spoilt the pictures so not too many of them were of much use.
Last minute news - 08/2015
Lesser black-backed gulls accompanied us almost all the time on the Atlantic Ocean during our procellariiformes expedition. Sometimes they were the only birds which stayed near the boat. There I took several interesting pictures and the gallery was rebuilt.
Last minute news - 08/2018 -Iceland
Last minute news- 09/2020 Heligoland – Germany
Last minute news-01-2025-Mexico
Netherlands– introductory text - Baillon's crake
Nevs galleries:
1.Baillon's crake. 2.Pied avocet. 3. Bluethroat. 4. Carrion crow. 5. Common swift. 6. Muscovy duck.
Changes in galeries:
1. Barnacle goose.2. Barn swallow 3. Egyptian goose. 4. Lesser black-backed gull. 5. Sandwich tern. 6. Black-winged stilt.
United Kingdom / Scilli- introduction text - Great shearwater
New gallerys:
1.Great shearwater. 2. Scopoli's Shearwater. 3. Sooty shearwater. 4. Balearic shearwater. 5. Long-tailed jaeger. 6. European storm petrel. 7. Eurasian rock pipit.
And changes in the galleries:
1.Northern gannet. 2. Manx shearwater. 3. Ruddy turnstone. 4. Lesser black-backed gull. 5. Great black-backed gull. 6. White wagtail- Motacilla alba yarrellii. 7. Eurasian curlew. 8. Northern fulmar.
Go to the gallery: United Kingdom - FAUNA
Iceland 06/2018 – the introductory text – Gyrfalcon
1. Gyrfalcon (T,V). 2. Short-eared Owl (T) . 3. Great northern loon (T). 4. Merlin (T). 5. Glaucous gull (T,V). 6. Pink-footed goose (T). 7. Rock ptarmigan (T,V). 8. Harlequin duck (T). 9. Thick-billed Murre (T). 10. Iceland gull (T). 11. Black-tailed Godwit (T). 12. Whimbrel (T). 13. Redwing (T,V). 14. Razorbill (T). 15. Guillemot. 16. Eurasian Wigeon (T). 17. Northern Pintail (T). 18. Red-throated Loon. 19. Black-legged kittiwake. 20. Dunlin. 21. Meadow Pipit. 22. Parasitic jaeger. 23. European golden plover. 24. Common redshank. 25. Horned grebe. 26. Barrow's goldeneye (T). 27. King eider (T). 28. Lesser black-backed gull. 29. Northern Wheatear. 30.Long-tailed jaeger. 31. Arctic Tern. 32.Black-headed Gul.
Go to the gallery : Iceland - F A U N A Icelannd - SLIDE SHOW
Heligoland – Germany -09/2020- introductory text - Northern gannet
CHANGES in GALLERIES
BIRDS:
1.Northern gannet (T,V). 2.Bar-tailed godwit (T,V). 3.Sanderling. 4.Northern Wheatear. 5.Eurasian Oystercatcher. 6.Litle stint (T). 7.Dunlin. 8. Red Knot (T). 9.Ruddy Turnstone (V) 10.Carrion crow. 11. Purple Sandpiper (T). 12.Common Starling. 13.Common Ringed Plover. 14.Willow warbler. 15.Meadow Pipit. 16.White Wagtail. 17.European Herring Gull. 18.Black Redstart. 19.Lesser Black-backed Gull . 20. European golden plover. 21.Black-legged kittiwake. 22.Whinchat. 23.Common Eider. 24.Sandwich Tern. 25. Hooded Crow. 26.European Pied Flycatcher.
MAMMALS:
1. Grey seal (T) 2. Harbor seal (T).
IN THE GALERY of COUNTRIES: 1.Heligoland. 2.Germany FAUNA.
Mexico 2025- - introduktory text – Brown Pelican.
Changes in galleries:
BIRDS:
1.Brown Pelican. 2.Little Blue Heron. 3.Willet. 4.Plain Chachalaca. 5.Least Sandpiper. 6.Palm Warbler. 7.Ring-necked Duck 8.Brown Jay. 9.Great Kiskadee 10.Neotropic Cormorant. 11.White Ibis 12.Yucatan Woodpecker. 13.Tricollored Heron. 14.Sosial Flycatcher. 15.White-winged Dove. 16.Northern Waterthrush. 17.Altamira Oriole. 18.Royal Tern. 19.Roseate Sponbill. 20.Cinnamon Hummingbird. 21.Semipalmated Plover. 22.Tropical Kingbird. 23.Mangrove Vireo. 24.Short-billed Dowitcher. 25.Yellow-crowned Night Heron 26.Mangrove Swallow. 27.Olive-thtoated Parakeet. 28.Masked Tityra. 29.Clay-colored Thrush. 30.Least Flycatcher. 31.Yellow Warbler. 32.Melodious Blackbird. 33.American Flamingo. 34.Muscovy Duck. 35.Magnificent Friggtebird. 36.Great Blue Heron 37.Tropical Mockingbird. 38.Blue-gray Tanager. 39.Greet-tiled Grackle 40.Red-throated Ant-Tanager. 41.Laughing Gull. 42.Sandwich Tern 43.Grey Plover. 44.Sanderling. 45.Osprey. 46.Spotted Sandpiper. 47.Whimbrel. 48.Ruddy Turnstone. 49.Lesser Black-backed Gull. 50.Green Heron. 51.Black Vulture 52.Eurasian Collared Dove. 53.Ruddy Ground-Dove.
REPTILES : 1. Green Iguana. 2.Brown basilisk.
MAMMALS : White-nosed coati.
Newly created galleries:
BIRDS:
1.Clapper Rail. 2. Western Sandpiper 3.Piping Plover 4.Double-crested Cormorant. 5.Curve-winged Sabrewing. 6.Wood Stork 7.Marbled Godwit. 8.Magnolia Warbler. 9.Black Catbird.
MAMMALS: 1.Raccoon. 2.Yucatan squirrel.
REPTILES: 1.Black spiny-tailed iguana. 2.Anolis sagrei.
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