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Scientific name: Larus canus. Name: mew gull Medium-sized gull with gray back and upper wings, and white head, neck ,  and **belly **.  Bill is bright yellow. Wings have white-spotted black tips; tail is white. Feet and legs are dull yellow. Winter adult has brown wash on nape and dark ring near tip of bill.

Juvenile has dark tipped bill, brown-scaled **nape **and wings, and black terminal tail band. 1st winter begins to show gray on back winter resembles winter adult but has more extensive brown on head and yellow-gray legs.

Breeds from Alaska east to central Mackenzie and south to northern Saskatchewan and along the coast to southern British Columbia. Spends winters on the Pacific coast and along the boreal forest belt of Eurasia. Found in and along coastal ranges, tidal estuaries, interior lakes, and marshy grasslands. Three tan to green brown or olive buff eggs marked with brown are laid in a grass nest built on a beach, riverbank, tree top, stump, or piling, usually nests in colonies. Incubation ranges from 22 to 28 days and is carried out by both parents.

Eats fish, marine invertebrates, insects, berries, and grains; forages by snatching food from the water surface while in flight or floating. Sometimes resorts to cannibalism of eggs and young when food is scarce.

Gulls are highly adaptable feeders that opportunistically take wide range prey, the food taken by gull includes fish, marine, insects, earth worms, plants, seeds, fruit, fresh water, and human foods.

Gulls fly around the sea for food in winter to survive, some gulls are common to take care of their baby birds to find some insects. Gulls usually enjoy swimming and flying around the coast and bearing sea. Bird mew gull is named after the plane, both mew gull and a bird mew gull are both connected each other that’s why the bird is called mew gull.

The scientific name is Larus Canus. The female ring-billed gull lays two to four eggs in a hollow in the ground. The nest is made with reeds and rushes. Both the male and the female incubate the eggs. The eggs hatch in about three and a half weeks. Both parents will feed the chick’s regurgitated food. The chicks leave the nest a few days after they are born. They fledge in about a month.