A group of white birds is gathered on the shore of Lake Champlain in upstate New York. This photo was taken in February, after the gulls in the interior of the Adirondack Park had left for open water. Some of them migrate to the warmer Champlain Valley – a center for cold-weather birding in the Adirondack Park. Lake Champlain remains open for much of the winter, so it attracts a large number of ducks and other aquatic birds that had abandoned their breeding territories in the Adirondack interior earlier in the fall. The term “squabble” – as I was told by the Wise Ones of Google AI – can be used to describe a group of gulls, referring to the noisy, argumentative nature of these birds.
The Alt Theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Gulls. Here’s a squabble of Ring-billed Gulls on Lake Champlain in upstate New York. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-b...
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