About Glaucous-winged Gull

Description

Glaucous-winged gulls are large pale gulls with white bellies and heads and medium gray wing-tops that progressively lighten as they mature until the age of 4. Most people typically just call them seagulls. They have pink legs and an orange-red spot on the near tip of their lower beak. They can grown to almost 2ft in length.

Diet & Habitat

Glaucous-winged gulls are scavengers if given the opportunity feeding upon dead fish, mammals, birds, and invertebrates. They will leave coastal areas following rivers and larger waterways following spawning salmon. Glaucous-winged gulls are known to prey on eggs, chicks, and even practicing cannibalism feeding on the other chicks of their own species.

Predation among Glaucous-winged gulls is from bald eagles, while crows, ravens, and jaegers harvest eggs. But the largest threat of a Glaucous-winged gull is its own kind.