BTO Bird ID - Common & Herring Gull

Love them or hate them, you can't (or shouldn't) ignore gulls. Build up your gull ID skills by learning to recognise two ideal reference species from this versatile and varied family: Common Gull and Herring Gull.

[chuckandevea.]

I love Seagulls, I can watch them for hours. They are pretty funny the things they do for food. They are awesome birds.

[mariea]

I love the absolutely hard facedness of them. They are such cheeky buggers

[ChristopherHarle]

Thank you. I love birds but often cannot, with confidence, identify them. Such videos are very helpful to me.

[deniecedonnafield]

I've been studying the ring Bill Seagull for over 18 years ~ it took me many years to realize the sex and the age! What you call Winter stages of one two three four five ~ I've only wanted to be influenced by the seagulls themselves not from others teaching me! Today I've learned some new things from others here on YouTube about seagulls! I'm fortunate that I have learned much of their language! I have also learned that they have sign language when they fly and also feet language! I have discovered with the ring bills it's one of the hardest life's to live as a bird! Unless you're being shot at! Thank you for your knowledge maybe one day I'll be able to teach mine!

[aimeedesign]

I thought I was as good as I could be at identifying laridae species but after watching this I see where I was lacking knowledge! Thank you for the information 🙏

[jameshuang]

OMG ...I love these seagulls and birds dearly ... I am always wanted feed them ... missed them badly ..

[princessmariasviatopolk-mi]

I so enjoy watching the Seagulls on video. I love Seagulls.
PRINCESS MARIA SVIATOPOLK- MIRSKI/STRATFORD EAST LONDON.

[anonymuz_guy]

they're also known as mew gulls here in North America and are usually seen with ring-billed and glaucous-winged gulls. Very informative video.

[LondonTreeSurgeons-Camden]

Great addition to this wonderful series.

[JamesTaylor-yhrl]

i told a gull shes lovely and she got the message and put on a show

[nicnak]

Excellent and very informative, thank you .

[aarontietjen]

Many thanks for this video and all the others that you have put together. I'd love to see a yellow-legged & lesser black backed gull comparison.

[PotentialTechniques]

Thankyou to all involved in making this video happen.. This is very useful and very nicely done thankyou.

[hedgehog]

Argh Gulls. My kryptonite. This should help, thank you BTO.

[flintytheraccbold]

There are great finches in the park near me that will land on my hand if I put food on it

[TatraScrambler]

That's easy, but how do you tell Larus argentatus from L. michahellis and L. cachinnans?

[rac]

Came here after I saw a mako shark lunge out of the water and gulp down a swimming gull on my vacation in Florida lol

[ronsmith]

I notice there are less around than about a month ago in the UK, what is their migratory habits?

[KingTriton]

Mean ass birds. They're all over the place where I live and they will stalk you if you are eating at the park my house. Lol.

[Bryt]

Are those yellow legs on the lesser black-backed gull? I see one like that in the park regularly, among the herring gulls.