are able to fly, the Herring Gulls desert their breeding -places and disperse 

 round the coasts for the season, the young birds usually keeping in a flock 

 by themselves. The Herring Gull carries its mottled, immature plumage a 

 moult longer than the lesser Black-backed Gull, and in all stages of its 

 plumage the colours are somewhat paler. 



Young in down are quite indistinguishable from those of the Lesser 

 Black-tucked Gull. They are greyish -buff on the upper parts, spotted con- 

 spicuously with black on the head and throat, and mottled with dark brown 

 on the rest of the upper parts, and are white on the belly. The legs and feet 

 are flesh-coloured. 



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