Today’s bird

Vega Gull

Larus vegae

Family: Gulls, terns, and skimmers

Vega Gull is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.

Did you know

  1. The Vega gull, East Siberian gull, or East Siberian herring gull is a large gull of the herring gull/lesser black-backed gull complex which breeds in Northeast Asia.

  2. The Mongolian gull Larus mongolicus was formerly regarded as a subspecies of Vega gull.

  3. Eye colour is variable but tends to be dark with a red orbital ring.

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