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Herring gull

British pronunciation/hˈɛɹɪŋ ɡˈʌl/
American pronunciation/hˈɛɹɪŋ ɡˈʌl/
Herring gull
[NOUN]
1

a large seabird of the gull family originated in Northern hemisphere with wide black-tipped wings

synonyms : Larus argentatus
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1And with the herring gull, there's this famous experiment where the egg rolls out the nest.
2There's a very famous paper by Baerends about the herring gull.
3So what would be better than to use the herring gull, in its freedom, circling and swooping over the sea, and to use this as a role model?
4The last species in the ring is the lesser black-backed gull of northwestern Europe, which can’t mate with the first species in the ring, the European herring gull, because they’re too genetically different.
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