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Glaucous-winged Gull

Overview
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Glaucous-winged Gull Sounds

Overview
ID info
Life History
Maps
Sounds

Long calls and alarm calls
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Alaska, June 15, 2007Recorded by Michael Andersen | Macaulay Library
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Alaska, June 15, 2007Recorded by Michael Andersen | Macaulay Library
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Washington, June 25, 1958Recorded by Robert C. Stein | Macaulay Library

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Calls

A low, piercing kiau is the most commonly heard call, similar to other large gulls’ calls; also a low cow-cow-cow. The “long call” is a series of higher-pitched, longer notes, shortening and descending as they progress, that resemble similar calls of Western and Herring Gulls—this is the gull vocalization that many people associate generally with the “seashore.” On breeding grounds, males and females give a great variety of calls in courtship and threat displays.

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