Adult Yellow-legged Gull (Larus micahellis) for #SaturdayLaridae #BirdingHungary #gulls #seegulls

Many Black-headed Gulls are now in breeding plumage. For a few weeks at the height of the breeding season, their beak and legs, which are normally deep red, turn almost black. #BirdingHungary #gulls #SeeGulls #BirdsSeenIn2026

Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) "HP64". Color-ringed a little over a year ago at a landfill about 33 kms from where I saw it. Since it was banded, it has been reported 28 times mostly round Siófok on Lake Balaton. This bird doesn't wander very far. #BirdingHungary #gulls #seegulls

I almost forgot! It's #SaturdayLaridae Here's an adult Kelp Gull (Larus dominicanus). If gull ID gives you nightmares, Australia is the place to bird! 😄 Only 3 species and all are relatively easy to ID. #BirdingAustralia #gulls #seegulls

Pacific Gull (Larus pacificus) about to devour a small crab. #BirdingAustralia #BirdingTasmania #gulls #seegulls

The dominant gull on the Australian continent ... the Silver Gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae). It is everywhere... from offshore at the continental shelf to the downtown of major cities... filching french fries from the tourists. 😃 #BirdingAustralia #gulls #seegulls

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A pair of adult Pacific Gulls (Larus pacificus) at Pirate's Bay. Found only along the south coasts of Australia. It doesn't seem to be that common in Tasmania despite tons of good habitat... unlike the Kelp Gulls which are everywhere. #BirdingTasmania #BirdingAustralia #gulls #seegulls

Now we know what's at the end of the rainbow. A Silver Gull! 😄👍 #BirdingTasmania #BirdingAustralia #gulls #seegulls #Hobart

Sometimes I struggle with big gull ID. But here's one species that you never have to struggle with in any age or plumage because of that absurd, big-ass honkin' bill. 😄 Pacific Gull (Larus pacificus) #BirdingAustralia #BirdingTasmania #gulls #seegulls #SaturdayLaridae

No Kelp Gulls (Larus dominicanus) in Melbourne, but 600 km (373 miles) south in Hobart, there was quite a few. They were even nesting on a flat gravel roof just below my hotel window. The common big gull of the southern hemisphere. #BirdingAustralia #BirdingTasmania #gulls #SeeGulls

Walking along the beach in Hobart, the Silver Gulls (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae) were following me and just screaming non-stop. I figured they had babies hidden nearby, but I never saw the young ones. #BirdingTasmania #BirdingAustralia #gulls #seegulls

By far the commonest large gull in Hungary.. Caspian Gull (Larus cachinnans). Note the dark eye, clean winter head, lack of gonydeal angle on the lower mandible and the white "tongues" extending into the black on the wingtips. #BirdingHungary #gulls #seegulls

Adult Yellow-legged Gull (Larus micahellis) enjoying a fish dinner while a Hooded Crow waits its turn. #BirdingHungary #gulls #seegulls #SundayYellow-legged

Yellow-legged Gull (Larus micahellis) for #SaturdayLaridae 😀 #BirdingHungary #gulls #seegulls

Another portrait of adult Caspian Gull (Larus cacchinnans). I have 6 "Caspians" on my life list. Gull, Tern, Plover, Tit, Snowcock and Sea! 😄 #BirdingHungary #gulls #SeeGulls

You could call any large gull in Hungary a Caspian Gull (Larus cachinnans) and 90% of the time you would be right. The commonest large gull in these parts by a wide margin. #BirdingHungary #birds #gulls #SeeGulls

Mediterranean Gulls (Ichtyaetus melanocephalus) in the bright sunshine are like ghosts floating over the fields. #BirdingHungary #BirdsSeenin2025 #gulls #birds #seegulls

Second cycle Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) in Venice. #BirdingItaly #BirdsSeenin2025 #gulls #SeeGulls #SaturdayLaridae

So many Yellow-legged Gulls (Larus michahellis) in downtown Pula that I started ignoring them. But this one was posing so perfectly that I couldn't resist another pic. Nature's perfection! 😀 #BirdingCroatia #BirdsSeenin2025 #gulls #SeeGulls

Another image of the Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) going off to work. 😂 #BirdingCroatia #gulls #SeeGulls #BirdsSeenin2025

The nominate subspecies of the Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus fuscus), known as the Baltic Gull, is the most common version to be found in Hungary. Primarily a passage bird that only occassionally shows up in winter. #BirdingHungary #BirdsSeenin2025 #gulls #seegulls #birds

Many people don't realize that gulls are strictly coastal birds. If you go out on the open ocean, or remote islands in the ocean... you don't see any gulls at all. Anyway, I still like using the hashtag #seegulls .. go out and see gulls! 😀