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Piping plovers, difficult to identify gulls which were herrings? glaucous? great black-backed? and arctic terns were always there.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Ethiopian cisticola, Cisticola lugubris (formerly, Cisticola galactotes lugubris; protonym, Sylvia (Cisticola) lugubris), also known as the Abyssinian black-backed cisticola, photographed at the Gerfasa Reservoir, Ethiopia (Africa).
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Once born they can fall prey to hypothermia, suffer attacks from black-backed gulls and ravens (who peck out the eyes, tongues and rectums); even rabbit holes are a danger (they wriggle in for shelter and can't get out).
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Piping plovers, difficult to identify gulls which were herrings? glaucous? great black-backed? and arctic terns were always there.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Piping plovers, difficult to identify gulls which were herrings? glaucous? great black-backed? and arctic terns were always there.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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Piping plovers, difficult to identify gulls which were herrings? glaucous? great black-backed? and arctic terns were always there.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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She found a bench out of the wind, keeping a close eye on the black-backed gulls suspended over her impromptu picnic, their sandwich-detecting radar on full sweep.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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Gulls do visit the pond, more of the quieter, more dignified black-backed gulls, fortunately, than the rude and raucous herring gulls that are to sea birds what dandelions are to wildflowers, and there are a couple of ospreys who find the fishing hereabouts to their liking.
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Gulls do visit the pond, more of the quieter, more dignified black-backed gulls, fortunately, than the rude and raucous herring gulls that are to sea birds what dandelions are to wildflowers, and there are a couple of ospreys who find the fishing hereabouts to their liking.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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The gull colonies in Rotterdam are comprised of two species: the lesser black-backed gull, and the herring gull.
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