Physical description

• slender, yellowish, or green legs, with webbed feet
• gray wings and back with a plain white head, greenish - yellow bill
• brown plumage and spotted tan
• dark beak with a pink undertone
• max lifespan up to 24 years

Habitat

Mew Gulls flourish in and along coastal ranges, tidal estuaries, interior lakes, and marshy grassland.

Behavior

Mew Gulls will not stray far from land and are known to seek the shore first in the occurence of stormy weather. The gull will also advace further inland in large flocks, into agricultural districts, to feast on the exposed worms and larvae after the land has been plowed. Northern gulls will migrate south when breeding season begins.

Food Eaten

herring, worms, insects, berries, grains, crustaceans, clams, mussels, young sea birds.

Predator

Cannibalistic adult gulls will eat eggs and hatclings.

Predators

gulls, sharks

Migration

Mew gulls migrate in summer through-out Northwestern Canada and Alaska, winter along the Pacific Coast. They rarely migate inland South of its breeding range.