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glaucous-winged gulls common about the upper end of Iliamna 

 Lake, and he found a nesting colony on some small rocky islets. 

 In flying over the tundra between Egegik cannery and Becharof 

 Lake, he found these gulls to be common everywhere. 



The species is the nesting gull on the Commander Islands; 

 also it nests in Kamchatka, the Pribilofs, and as far north as St. 

 Lawrence Island (Murie 1936). 



Nesting 



Glaucous-winged gulls nest in a great variety of sites — on high 

 ledges on cliffs (as near False Pass), on high grassy slopes of 

 islands (a favorite site) , on low rock islets, or on the sandy shores 



Figure 30. — Glaucous-winged gulls. 



