Along the wild Pacific coast, gulls and cormorants stand raucous guard above basking sea lions.
"With 40, 000 gulls, there's not a lot of room for a lot of other birds," strong says.
Female-female pairings have been observed in other birds, such as California gulls and roseate terns, but never at quite such a high rate.
From the little window of their lonely tower they could see the blue ocean and watch the gulls and eagles sweep back and froth OVER the island.
As he came from Earth now, above the clouds and in close formation with the two brilliant gulls, he saw that his own body was growing as bright as theirs.
The young gulls looked at him quizzically.
Live on fish, fishy flesh they have, all seabirds, gulls, seagoose.
Help the new gulls here, the ones who are high enough to see what you have to tell them.
Most gulls don't bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight - how to get from shore to food and back again.
He turned to land on the beach, beating his wings to stop an inch in the air, then dropping lightly to the sand, the other gulls landed too, but not one of them so much as flapped a feather.
On the beach, there are two gulls looking for food.
The photographer spent a week trying to photograph gulls stealing the sand eels from puffins.
There were four thousand gulls in the crowd, frightened at what had happened, and the cry DEVIL! Went through them like the wind of an ocean storm.
Half Moon Island is known for Antarctic terns, kelp gulls and a hilltop rookery of chinstrap penguins, named for the thin line of black feathers that runs beneath their necks.
Kunming, China: A man feeds blackheaded gulls at Dianchi lake. Tens of thousands of blackheaded gulls fly to Kunming from Siberia to spend the winter each year.
The idea is to keep the gulls away from sensitive shorebirds — and they aren't happy about it.
"We need to give them more time before we decide they do not work," said Oscar Pena, the Port District's general manager, who noted the owls, which cost about $40 apiece, only are supposed to scare 30 percent to 40 percent of the gulls that land nearby.
The dozen gulls by the shoreline came to meet him, none saying a word.
If the spring and Jingming, the waves are not alarmed, up and down in the sky, a vast expanse of blue, sand gulls flying, swimming brocade scale, bank Zhi Dinglan, blue.
She had seen the ships, but at such a great distance that they looked like sea-gulls.
A flock of sea gulls are hovering over the deck.
Shrill song of gulls scavenging.
The other swimmers were screeching greetings at each other like a flock of gulls.
His one sorrow was not solitude, it was that other gulls refused to believe the glory of flight that awaited them; they refused to open their eyes and see.
When the gulls landed on the water, the killer whale would then attempt to capture them in her mouth, without killing them.
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