{"id":35504,"date":"2013-03-03T13:30:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=35504"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:39:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:39:43","slug":"lesser-black-backed-gull-larus-fuscus-a-winter-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/lesser-black-backed-gull-larus-fuscus-a-winter-visitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) A Winter Visitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Trying to eat an eel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Leaving it’s favorite perching site<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Notice the dusky head and the yellow legs<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Dark gray mantle and yellowlegs<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
The Gull caught this eel, however could not get through the skin and slime to eat it<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) is a winter visitor to the East Coast of North America. The birds that are found here probably come from the breeding population in Iceland. The Lesser Black-backed Gull breeds in the Atlantic coasts of Europe and migrates in the winter. From the British Isles self to West Africa. Every year, for at least the past 10 years, a Lesser Black-back Gull has been a visitor to Jenney Pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where it hangs out with the waterfowl and other gulls species. Lesser Black-backed Gull is recognizable from a Great Black-backed Gull, especially by its yellow legs as opposed to the pinkish legs of the Great Black-backed Gull. The Lesser Black-backed Gull mantle is a dark gray rather than jet black of the Great Black-backed Gull. I observed the Lesser Black-backed Gull catching an eel which was almost as long as the gull and its efforts trying to eat the eel. The eel was to big and and had too much mucus for the gull to eat it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus) is a winter visitor to the East Coast of North America. The birds that are found here probably come from the breeding population in Iceland. The Lesser Black-backed Gull breeds in the Atlantic coasts of Europe and migrates in the winter. From the British Isles self to West Africa. Every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":2192831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Lesser-Black-backed-Gull-Larus-fuscus-D7K_2503.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2897,3504,7769,3505],"class_list":["post-35504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-jenney-pond","tag-lesser-black-backed-gull-larus-fuscus","tag-massachusetts","tag-plymouth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}