This small, tern-like gull is suffering from destruction of both tidal mudflats and breeding habitat, so its population is in sharp decline. At Saga prefecture in Japan where a sizable population winters every year, they love to feed on small crabs on the mudflats.
Factsheet: Saunders’s Gull Chroicocephalus saundersi
Saunders's Gull (non-breeding) in Flight
Saunders's Gull (non-breeding) in Flight
Saunders's Gull (non-breeding) with Crab
Saunders's Gull (non-breeding) with Crab
Saunders's Gull (non-breeding) with Crab
Saunders's Gull (non-breeding) with Crab
Saunders's Gull (breeding) taking Flight
Saunders's Gull (breeding) taking Flight
Saunders's Gull (breeding) in Flight
Saunders's Gull (breeding) in Flight
Saunders's Gull (breeding) in Flight
Saunders's Gull (breeding) in Flight
Saunders's Gull (breeding) in Flight
Saunders's Gull (breeding) with Crab
Saunders's Gull (breeding) with Crab
Saunders's Gull (breeding) catching Crab
Saunders's Gull (breeding) with Crab
Saunders's Gull (breeding) with Crab
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