laughing gull
noun
: an American gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) having a black head in breeding plumage and black wing tips blending into the gray upper side of the wings
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At least three birds — two brown pelicans and a laughing gull — were killed by the oil spill, and the Coast Guard spotted at least nine other birds clearly suffering from the spill.
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Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 20 May 2024
The sandpipers had already migrated, and the laughing gulls were long gone.
—Latria Graham, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
Investigators told the station that the injured seagull described as a laughing gull was later euthanized because of a broken wing.
—Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 5 May 2022
Two little gulls and a lingering laughing gull in Westport Harbor, a greater yellowlegs in Dartmouth and a flock of 16 red crossbills in the Freetown-Fall River State Forest.
—Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Dec. 2022
In Hampshire County, notable sightings at the Oxbow Marina included a black-bellied plover, a ruddy turnstone, a whimbrel, and a laughing gull.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
Wachusett Reservoir hosted 16 common mergansers, three Bonaparte’s gulls, a laughing gull, and a common tern.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
Also affected: Up to 32 percent of laughing gulls and up to a quarter of all brown pelicans.
—National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2020
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a royal tern, 5 parasitic jaegers, 1,100 laughing gulls, 2 least terns, 175 roseate terns, 2,800 common terns, 4 species of shearwater, and 2 common ravens.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2019
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Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 20 May 2024
The sandpipers had already migrated, and the laughing gulls were long gone.
—Latria Graham, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
Investigators told the station that the injured seagull described as a laughing gull was later euthanized because of a broken wing.
—Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 5 May 2022
Two little gulls and a lingering laughing gull in Westport Harbor, a greater yellowlegs in Dartmouth and a flock of 16 red crossbills in the Freetown-Fall River State Forest.
—Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Dec. 2022
In Hampshire County, notable sightings at the Oxbow Marina included a black-bellied plover, a ruddy turnstone, a whimbrel, and a laughing gull.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
Wachusett Reservoir hosted 16 common mergansers, three Bonaparte’s gulls, a laughing gull, and a common tern.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
Also affected: Up to 32 percent of laughing gulls and up to a quarter of all brown pelicans.
—National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2020
Sightings at Race Point in Provincetown included a royal tern, 5 parasitic jaegers, 1,100 laughing gulls, 2 least terns, 175 roseate terns, 2,800 common terns, 4 species of shearwater, and 2 common ravens.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2019
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