Adult Black-Headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) in Winter plumage - (Published by GETTY IMAGES)

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Nine metres, at 12:50pm on Monday 9th January 2023, off the Mall and Horse Guards Road within the grounds of St James's Park in Central London, one of the Royal parks of London situated in South West London.

 

 

Here we see a Black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)in summer plumage denoted by the chocoalte brown head, in flight. They are found in much of the Palearctic including Canada and Europe. In Canada it is called the Common black-headed gull.

 

 

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LATITUDE: N 51d 30m 6.20s

LONGITUDE: W 0d 8m 20.26s

ALTITUDE: 9.0m

 

 

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