What is the archaic or dialect name for a gull especially the greater black backed gull?

1. What is the real name of a sea gull?
2. What are the big gulls called?
3. Is a Kittiwake a seagull?
4. Where are black backed gulls from?
5. Where are great black backed gulls found?
6. Is Sea gull one word or two?
7. What gull means?
8. What is the largest gull?
9. What do great black backed gulls eat?
10. Why are kittiwakes called kittiwakes?

What is the real name of a sea gull?

The word seagull is actually an informal way of referring to any of the species that belong to the family Laridae, the gulls. There is not actually a single species called the seagull.

What are the big gulls called?

The biggest gull in the world, the great black-backed gull is thick-set with a powerful beak. They are known for bullying other birds to steal food. Great black-backed gulls are happy to eat most things, but especially like shellfish, birds and even rabbits and can be seen swallowing them down in one!

Is a Kittiwake a seagull?

Kittiwakes are coastal breeding birds ranging in the North Pacific, North Atlantic, and Arctic oceans. They form large, dense, noisy colonies during the summer reproductive period, often sharing habitat with murres. They are the only gull species that are exclusively cliff-nesting.

Where are black backed gulls from?

Great Black-backed Gulls live along the Atlantic Coast and inland on the Great Lakes. They choose isolated, predator-free sites such as piers or islands for breeding, and then disperse away from the colony for the rest of the year to feed at sea, along coasts, and at landfills.

Where are great black backed gulls found?

Great black-backed gulls breed mainly in the Outer and Inner Hebrides and the Northern Isles of Scotland. These regions offer extensive areas of the preferred breeding habitat of well-vegetated rocky coastline with stacks and cliffs.

Is Sea gull one word or two?

There's no such thing as a seagull—the correct term is simply “gull," because gulls don't live exclusively near the sea.

What gull means?

: a person who is easily deceived or cheated : dupe. Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences Learn More About gull.

What is the largest gull?

The king of the Atlantic waterfront, the Great Black-backed Gull is the largest gull in the world, with a powerful build and a domineering attitude.

What do great black backed gulls eat?

Diet includes carrion, fish, mollusks, crustaceans, marine worms, insects, rodents, berries, and the adults, young, and eggs of other birds.

Why are kittiwakes called kittiwakes?

Kittiwakes eat small fish or the remains of fish, catching them from the surface of the sea as they fly. They also eat small squid, molluscs, shrimps and worms. They are not usually a noisy bird, but at their breeding colonies they make a loud cry which sounds like 'kitt-ee-wake', which is how they got their name.