Common and familiar to most European birders, the range actually extends across Asia.
The head is actually brown (albeit very dark at the very beginning of the breeding season), but the scientific name means smiling or
"Laughing". The scientific name of Laughing Gull means "black-capped"! Taxonomists having a laugh?
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BLACK-HEADED GULL
Chroicocephalus ridibundus
