Tour Scotland 4K early Winter travel video of a Herring Gull on the harbour wall on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Anstruther on the coast of the East Neuk of Fife. Herring Gulls are the quintessential grey and white, pink legged seagull. They're the most familiar gulls of the North Sea. Herring Gulls prey on marine invertebrates, fish, insects, smaller seabirds, and even on adults, young, and eggs of other gulls. Along rocky shores, they take mussels, crabs, sea urchins, and crayfish. Living in coastal Scotland means that gulls are a regular sighting, whether you’re in a small fishing village or in a city. It’s easy to fall into the trap of labelling all gulls as seagulls, but there are in fact 7 different species of gull that regularly breed in the UK, 6 of which are commonly found in Scotland. These are the herring gull, the black headed gull, the lesser and great black backed gulls, the common gull, and the kittiwake. Some birds which we think of as seagulls are barely even associated with the sea at all, like the black headed gull for example. Though I now live in Perthshire, I was raised in Cellardyke and Anstruther. Officially, the Scottish winter runs from the 21st of December through to the 20th March.
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