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Laughing seagull*

Black-headed gull in Winter plumage/ the head is predominantly Black in the Summer months.

The genus name Chroicocephalus is from Ancient Greek khroizo, "to colour" and kephale "head".

The specific ridibundus is Latin for "laughing" from ridere "to laugh"

(Chroicocephalus ridibundus, Syn: Larus ridibundus)

 

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Uploaded on October 26, 2021
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