Common winter migrant to the lagoons, sand spits and tidal flats of Northern and North-western coastal areas. Its food mainly consists of fish but also feeds on any small animal it can catch and also carrion. Though usually encounters as solitary birds during November to April period, sometimes large flocks of several hundreds resting on sand-spits or tidal flats can be observed. It breeds in
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Monday, March 5, 2012
Great Black-headed Gull/Pallas’s Gull (Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus)
Common winter migrant to the lagoons, sand spits and tidal flats of Northern and North-western coastal areas. Its food mainly consists of fish but also feeds on any small animal it can catch and also carrion. Though usually encounters as solitary birds during November to April period, sometimes large flocks of several hundreds resting on sand-spits or tidal flats can be observed. It breeds in
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