black-headed gull

American  

noun

1. any of several gulls having a dusky or black head, as Larus ribidundus of northern Europe and Asia.

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Etymology

Origin of black-headed gull

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

The area is known for seals and also has the largest tern and black-headed gull colony in mainland Scotland.

From BBC

The six main UK gull species - the black-headed gull, common gull, Mediterranean gull, lesser black-backed gull, herring gull and great black-backed gull - are all declining and either amber- or, in the case of the herring gull, red-listed.

From BBC

In ‘Watership Down,’ I mapped the physical movements of twenty-two rabbits and one black-headed gull.”

From The Wall Street Journal

This black-headed gull caught Eve Tucker's eye as it sat in the middle of the extraordinary patterns in the water.

From BBC

"Here," says "Murray," "the black-headed gull breeds in enormous numbers, and their eggs are collected, to be sold as plovers' eggs, by thousands for the London market."

From Project Gutenberg