A flock of Great Black-backed Gulls resting on a sandy beach. In the center, an adult and a mottled brown first-year gull are facing each other with their beaks wide open in a mid-shout.

"But I said I wanted French fries" 🍟 This first-year Great Black-backed Gull and adult are having a shouting match in the middle of the flock. Juvenile gulls are known for loudly begging for food long after they are the same size as their parents. The drama is real! 🗣️🌊

#GreatBlackBackedGull #Birds

A large Great Black-backed Gull perched calmly on top of a pink and white navigational buoy marked with the letters 'HL' against a clear blue sky.

When you are the largest gull in the world, you simply expect humanity to provide adequate seating out on the open water. 👑 It's clear that this Great Black-backed Gull appreciates that we obliged by putting this buoy exactly where a well-deserved break was required!

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A pale, checkered juvenile Great Black-backed Gull bobbing peacefully on the vast blue water of a harbor.

The ocean really messes with your sense of scale. 🌊 Out here alone in Boothbay Harbor, this juvenile Great Black-backed Gull looks like a perfectly normal-sized, unbothered bath toy just riding the waves. In reality? It is an absolute giant. 🐥⚓

#Birds #MaineWildlife #GreatBlackBackedGull #Boothbay

A dark Double-crested Cormorant and a very large Great Black-backed Gull floating near each other in choppy blue water.

Serious maritime business going down in Boothbay Harbor. The Double-crested Cormorant is absolutely listening to a very long, very detailed complaint from the absolute absolute unit that is the Great Black-backed Gull.

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A juvenile, brown-winged gull with a black-tipped bill flies across a blue sky.

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Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus), 11th May 2024
es: Gavión Atlántico, fr: Goéland Marin
Lewes Public Beach, Lewes, Delaware
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 990mm, 60% crop, 1/2000s, f/13, ISO 500
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Two adult gulls, white with black wings, stand at the sea's edge in apparent conversation, while a juvenile stands sullenly behind. On front of the gulls, fragments of a small crab.

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Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus), 14th April 2024
es: Gavión Atlántico, fr: Goéland Marin
Revere, Massachusetts
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 840mm, 50% crop, 1/640s, f/13, ISO 250
#Birds #GreatBlackBackedGull #GBBG #Gulls #BirdOfTheDay

Great black-backed gull chicks, taken on The Skerries, Anglesey, Wales #birds #gulls #seabirds #RPSB #Anglesey #wales #wildlife #coast #theskerries #coastalbirds #nature #greatblackbackedgull

A young white-gray gull with heavy black flecking and a black bill floats on the surface of the sea.

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Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus), 31st August 2024
es: Gavión Atlántico, fr: Goéland Marin
Stellwagen Bank NMS, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 @ 800mm, 70% crop, 1/400s, f/10, ISO 125
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Long, asymmetrical grey feather with a worn, dark grey tip. The base of the shaft is ivory with the rest a dark grey.

Long, pointed, asymmetrical brown grey feather with dark grey brown stripes. The base is pale and the tip is dark. The base of the shaft is ivory with the rest a grey brown.

Top feather: long, pointed, asymmetrical brown grey feather with dark grey brown stripes. The base is pale and the tip is dark. The base of the shaft is ivory with the rest a grey brown. Bottom feather: long, asymmetrical grey feather with a worn, dark grey tip. The base of the shaft is ivory with the rest a dark grey. The top feather is slightly longer than the bottom.

Great black backed gull and osprey primary feathers from the Bay yesterday. The last image is a size comparison between the 2.

#birds #greatblackbackedgull #larus #larusmarinus #osprey #pandion #pandionhaliaetus #feather #feathers #beach #delawarebay #newjersey

A large white gull with a broad black band running from wing to wing soars low over the sea.

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Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus), 19th February 2024
es: Gavión Atlántico, fr: Goéland Marin
Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, Ipswich, Massachusetts
Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 40% crop, 1/2000s, ISO 1600
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A significant predator we were soon to witness in action….Nesting season. I expected many losses. What I didn’t expect was that adults too were at risk. The Great Black was witnessed twice picking off adult Puffins. It’s nature and need to survive.
#isleofmay #greatblackbackedgull #birdingscotland

Great black-backed gull chick, taken on The Skerries, Anglesey, Wales #birds #gulls #seabirds #RPSB #Anglesey #wales #wildlife #coast #theskerries #coastalbirds #nature #greatblackbackedgull

Feeling very east coast lately and have being working on this big boy.

#painting #acrylicpainting #greatblackbackedgull #birds #gull #wip #workinprogress #novascotia #eastcoast

An easel with a canvas. On the canvas is a work in progress of an acrylic painting of a Great Black-backed Gull standing on a beach with an old lobster cage in the background.

Update on my latest hyper fixation painting keeping me from all of my other work.

#birds #greatblackbackedgull #wip #art #painting

A canvas sitting on an easel. The canvas is light grey with a large Great Black-backed Gull painted on it. The rest of the canvas is covered in a sketch of an old lobster trap on the beach.

When you have 6 paintings already on the go but you get an ~ idea ~

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Gulls from up in Maine
#Eastcoastkin #larus #birds #birders #seagulls #gulls #greatblackbackedgull #herringgull #maine

A great black-backed gull stands in the water next to the beach. It has a white head, neck, and belly and black feathers on its back, with black and white on the tail. Its eye appears to be yellow. Its beak is yellow with a bright orange spot toward the end of the mandible. It curves down at the end. There is a gentle wave coming in off of the Irish Sea.

Great black-backed gull. #GreatBlackBackedGull #Gull #Bird #Nature #Beach #IrishSea #Photgraphy #Howth #Ireland

A red-eyed gulls soars, dark wings wide, over a sunlit sea.

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Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus), 25th March 2022
es: Gavión Atlántico, fr: Goéland Marin
Race Point Beach, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Canon EOS R5, Sigma 150-600mm + 1.4x teleconverter @ 840mm, 35% crop, 1/2000s, f/9, ISO 640
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Photo of a large, dark-grey bodied gull with a white head and yellow bill sitting atop some lichen-dusted mini boulders, with a deep, light blue sky in the background.

A great black-backed gull, the largest gull in the world. It will even hunt puffins and swallow rabbits 🪶

#isleofmay #ornithivore #greatblackbackedgull #greatblackbackedgullsofbluesky #greatblackbackedgullsky #gull #gulls #gullphotography #gullsky #laridae #larusmarinus #seagull #seagullsky #birds

A large dark-winged gull, wings low and forward, glides over the surface of the ocean.

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Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus), 14th November 2021
es: Gavión Atlántico, fr: Goéland Marin
Fall River, Massachusetts
Canon EOS 90D, Sigma 150-600mm @ 600mm, 35% crop, 1/800s, f/7.1, ISO 320
#Birds #GreatBlackBackedGull #GBBG #Gulls #HopeIsTheThingWithFeathers

Why do i feel the need to sneeze?!?

Great Black-backed Gull in Chatham 11/16/24 🪶 #birds #gulls #naturephotography #photography #Chatham #CapeCod #GreatBlackBackedGull

A juvenile Great Black-backed Gull at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, south of Virginia Beach, Virginia in September 2024. #GreatBlackBackedGull

One of New England’s largest and most recognizable gulls stands at the edge of the surf, gazing windswept out to sea.

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Great Black-backed Gull, 4th December 2022
Revere Beach, Revere, Massachusetts
Canon EOS R5, Canon 800mm f/11, 1/640s, ISO 250
#Birds #GreatBlackBackedGull #HopeIsTheThingWithFeathers

Allow us to sing the song of our people

Great Black-backed Gulls at MacMillan Pier, Provincetown MA 11/07/24 🪶 #birds #gull #GreatBlackbackedGull #naturephotography #photography #provincetown #CapeCod

A pale juvenile gull with elaborate brown markings on its wings flaps through a gray sky.

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Great Black-backed Gull, 25th March 2022
Race Point Beach, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Canon EOS R5, Sigma 150-600mm + 1.4x teleconverter @ 840mm, 20% crop, 1/800s, f/9, ISO 640
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Great Black-backed gull eating a guillemot egg, in the outer Farne Isles. #greatblackbackedgull #farneislands #birds #ukwildlife

Also out there: the predators. This part of Lake Ontario is host to the giant Great Black-backed Gull, always on the lookout for slow or injured ducks to eat. #GreatBlackBackedGull #gulls