{"id":5673,"date":"2026-01-24T14:17:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T14:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/?p=5673"},"modified":"2026-03-07T21:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T21:24:22","slug":"lesser-black-backed-gull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/lesser-black-backed-gull\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesser Black-backed Gull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<b>lesser black-backed gull<\/b>\u00a0(<i>Larus fuscus<\/i>) is a large\u00a0gull\u00a0that breeds on the\u00a0Atlantic\u00a0coasts of Europe. It is\u00a0migratory, wintering from the\u00a0British Isles south to West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Slightly smaller than a herring gull, the lesser black-backed gull has a dark grey to black back and wings, yellow bill and yellow legs. Their world population is found entirely in Europe.\u00a0 The rather graceful Lesser Black-backed Gull stands apart from other large gulls, such as Herring and Great Black-backed, by its smaller size, long, slender wings, and bright yellow legs.<\/p>\n<p>Like other large gulls, it eats almost anything (but especially fish, shellfish, and crustaceans) and can be found along shorelines and at landfills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0lesser black-backed gull\u00a0(Larus fuscus) is a large\u00a0gull\u00a0that breeds on the\u00a0Atlantic\u00a0coasts of Europe. It is\u00a0migratory, wintering from the\u00a0British Isles south to West Africa. Slightly smaller than a herring gull, the lesser black-backed gull has a dark grey to black back and wings, yellow bill and yellow legs. Their world population is found entirely in Europe.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":6462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,48,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-143","category-bird-species","category-migrant-arrivals"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5676,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5673\/revisions\/5676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butemuseum.org.uk\/butebirdgroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}