A seagull and its chick on the Illa do Faro
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A seagull and its chick on the Illa do Faro

by Martin Wegmann, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Unfortunately I am not enough of a seagull expert to say which species this is. As you can guess, this was in late spring and the Illa do Faro is close to the Spanish harbour town Vigo. I remember those seagulls to be extremely protective.