The Gull Island Vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus nesophilus), last collected in 1897 on Gull Island, New York, was a ground-dwelling coastal beach grass herbivore endemic to Gull Island, New York. Fifteen specimens in Washington disappeared after the foundation grading for naval fortifications in August 1898.
The herring gull can be distinguished from the common gull, which it closely resembles, by its larger size and slower, lazier wingbeats.
Gulls are sociable, noisy birds and they breed in colonies.
With the landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to sleep between billows; so at nightfall, the Nantucketer, out of sight of land, furls his sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales.
Little gulls and House martins were both plentiful and a Raven flew by as we watched.
Hailuoto Island, a pair on 18th; Liminganlahti bay, a pair on 19th; common daily in the Kuusamo area.
Oulu bay, two on 17th; Hailuoto Island, six, of which three were in display flight, on 18th; Papinjarvi Lake, five on 19th, 10 on 20th; Hietasaari tower, Oulu, one on 23rd.
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