Lach- und Schwarzkopfmöwen kehren im Frühjahr in ihre Brutgebiete im Donaudelta zurück. Sie unterscheiden sich vor allem durch Kopfzeichnung und Ruf. Ihre Kolonien liegen oft auf Inseln oder schwimmender Vegetation. Das ständige Rufen begleitet meine Bootsfahrt durch die Wasserlandschaft.
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FEATHRUARY 2025

Prompt 11: Flock
-> Mediterranean Gull

We're already starting week 3 of #feathruary and this week's theme is "behaviour"!

When I read "flock", gulls immediately come to mind (although, to be fair, gulls come to my mind all the time anyway). They are very social birbs and like to live in large colonies.

The mediterranean gull is a slightly larger and more robust gull with a heavier beak and stronger legs than, for example, the black-headed gull.

They used to live only around the Black Sea, which is actually not an ocean, but a mediterranean lake between Europe and Asia. I'm sure most of you know that, although they are often called "seagulls", lots of gull species don't live near the ocean.

Today, mediterranean gulls are found throughout Europe, including Great Britain and Ireland, some Scandinavian countries and the Balkans.

FUN FACT
Gulls can be confusing anyway, because many species look very similar to one another. Their German names make it even more confusing: The Mediterranean Gull is called "Schwarzkopfmöwe" in German, which literally translates to "black-headed gull". However, the Black-Headed Gull is another gull species and their German name is "Lachmöwe" ("laughing gull"). These two are not the same though, in fact, they aren't even in the same genus of gulls! The mediterranean gull belongs to the Ichthyaetis genus while the black-headed gull belongs to the Chroicocephalus genus. Ha!

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