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Identifier: birdsofbritish00cowa (find matches)
Title: The birds of the British Isles and their eggs
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Eggs Great Britain
Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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rns, andSkuas. Family LARID.^. Bill strong, tip recurved (Gulls, Skuas), straight and tapering(Terns) ; cere present (Skuas) ; anterior toes webbed ; hindtoe present. Common Gull. Lams canus Linn. The Common Gull (Plate 89) ranges over northern Europeand Asia, and, in winter, north Africa and the Chinese seas.In the British Isles it is resident, a winter visitor, and a bird ofpassage ; it breeds abundantly in Scotland and Ireland, butnot, usually, south of the Border. There are recent recordsof isolated nests on the Fames, the English side of the Solway,and Kent. Gulls as gulls are familiar, but the various species, owingto changes of plumage and variability in size, are difficult toidentify ; the name Common Gull is a frequent source of error.In most parts, especially in England and Wales, the Black-headis the common gull, and as it loses its distinctive brown hoodin winter is confused with the present species. The CommonGull is more robust, a stouter bird than the Black-head, but is
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