. Bird guide : water birds, game birds and birds of prey east of the Rockies . 47. Lams marinus. 29 in. Largest and most powerful of our gulls. Adults insummer have the head, tail and underparts white, backslaty black, eyes and bill yellow, with a red spot nearthe tip of the lower mandible; feet flesh color; primariestipped with white. In winter, the head is streaked withdusky. Young birds are mottled with dusky brownabove, and streaked with the same below. These birdsare very rapacious, and besides feeding upon refuse, fishand shellfish, devour, during the summer season, a greatmany eggs and
. Bird guide : water birds, game birds and birds of prey east of the Rockies . 47. Lams marinus. 29 in. Largest and most powerful of our gulls. Adults insummer have the head, tail and underparts white, backslaty black, eyes and bill yellow, with a red spot nearthe tip of the lower mandible; feet flesh color; primariestipped with white. In winter, the head is streaked withdusky. Young birds are mottled with dusky brownabove, and streaked with the same below. These birdsare very rapacious, and besides feeding upon refuse, fishand shellfish, devour, during the summer season, a greatmany eggs and yovmg of other sea birds; this habit iscommon to nearly all the larger gulls. Notes.—A laughing ha-ha and a harsh keouw. Nest.—Either hollows on the ground or masses ofweeds and drift, hollowed out to receive the threegrayish brown eggs, spotted with blackish and lilac.(). Range.—These gulls breed from Newfoundland north-ward, being most abundant on the Labrador coast. Inwinter they are found as far south as the Carolina?,usually in company with Herrings 39
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