Hartlaub's Gull

ID Features: A medium sized, pale-gray-backed gull of coastal waters and human settlements. Breeding Birds have dark eyes and a very faint chalky-gray hood, which non-breeding birds lack. The similar Gray-hooded Gull differs from Hartlaub's Gull by being larger, having a yellowish-white eye, a longer redder bill, and a discrete grayish hood in breeding plumage. Immature Gray-hooded Gulls have a black terminal tail band which juvenile Hartlaub's Gulls lack.
Habitat: This adaptable omnivore is the commonest gull of the Benguela Current, but it's penchant for eating offal means it is expending its range eastwards.
Locations: Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa

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Gray-hooded Gull

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ID Features: Distinctive gull. Breeding adults have a gray hood, pale eyes, and a red bill and legs. The back is medium gray and the wings have extensively dark flight feathers. Loses the gray hood in the nonbreeding season which is replaced by a dark cheek spot, while juveniles have paler bills and variably brown mottled wings and back.
Habitat: Prefer fresh water areas, but common on the shore as well.
Locations: Namibia, Peru, Kenya, Ecuador, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mauritania