Seagull Touchdown

by DB Hayes

Title

Seagull Touchdown

Artist

DB Hayes

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Photograph - Photography, Photograph

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WE are very happy to write the following highly respected art groups have featured our
"Seagull Touchdown" image;

1 - Animals PHOTOS ONLY: Featured on March 14, 2017
2 - Your Very Best Photography: Featured on March 14, 2017
3 - Created by Southern Artists: Featured on March 14, 2017
4 - HDR Photography: Featured on March 15, 2017
5 - Birds In Focus: Featured on March 15, 2017
6 - FAA Portraits - Birds: March 16, 2017
7 - Coastal Water Birds - Shore Birds: Featured on March 17, 2017

Deb and I came upon a group of Gulls (scientific name is Laridae) or more commonly referred to as seagulls as they were flying in and out and around a small pond area at the entrance to the causeway leading to Jekyll Island, Georgia off Highway 17. At least I think that is the main road one turns off when traveling to Jekyll Island. So, we stopped, parked and started photographing them. One of those was this comical looking dude. If I remember correctly it was about to take flight when I snapped this image as it had its wings raised straight overhead with water droplets thrown about. When I viewed the image the first thought that hit my mind was "touchdown", which lead to the title for this image. Maybe you'll find this as comical as we did. Now for little information about this species.

Gulls, often referred to as seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most closely related to the terns (family Sternidae) and only distantly related to auks, skimmers, and more distantly to the waders. Until the 21st century, most gulls were placed in the genus Larus, but this arrangement is now known to be polyphyletic, leading to the resurrection of several genera. An older name for gulls is mew, cognate with German Mwe, Danish mge, Dutch meeuw, and French mouette; this term can still be found in certain regional dialects.

Gulls are typically medium to large birds, usually grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They typically have harsh wailing or squawking calls, stout, longish bills, and webbed feet. Most gulls, particularly Larus species, are ground-nesting carnivores, which take live food or scavenge opportunistically. Live food often includes crabs and small fish. Gulls have unhinging jaws which allow them to consume large prey. Apart from the kittiwakes, gulls are typically coastal or inland species, rarely venturing far out to sea.

The large species take up to four years to attain full adult plumage, but two years is typical for small gulls. Large white-headed gulls are typically long-lived birds, with a maximum age of 49 years recorded for the herring gull.

Gulls nest in large, densely packed noisy colonies. They lay two or three speckled eggs in nests composed of vegetation. The young are precocial, being born with dark mottled down, and mobile upon hatching.

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Bill and Deb Hayes

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March 13th, 2017

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