herring gull

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herring gull

noun herring gulls

Any of a group of large seagulls in the Larus genus. Flocks of herring gulls are often seen near piers and wharves where they perform a valuable service by feeding on garbage and refuse.
Specifically the European herring gull (Larus argentatus). He lit his first cigarette, a Balkan and Turkish mixture made for him by Morlands of Grosvenor Street, and watched the small Waves lick the long seashore and the fishing-fleet from Dieppe string out towards the June heat-haze followed by a paper-chase of herring-gulls.
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noun large seagull

Français	goéland
Deutsch	Silbermöwe
Ελληνικά	ασημόγλαρος asimóglaros

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@misc{herring_gull_2026,
  title = {herring gull},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/herring%20gull},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}