To most New Yorkers, a gull is a gull is a gull.
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In Australia we have only three species of gull—the ordinary-looking silver gull, the large-billed Pacific Gull, and the Kelp gull which you get over in America sometimes.
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N.Y.C. Nature To many residents of New York, a gull is a gull is a gull — birds that occupy a niche just ahead of rats and roaches in the hierarchy of city wildlife.
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Another gull with stiffer wingbeats comes over, I think, that's going to be a western gull, and it was.
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Bird expert Kenn Kaufman had no trouble identifying the animal, a type of gull (there are some 50 species of gull).
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With a wingspan measuring a little more than a yard, the laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) is considered a medium-size gull.
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Summer at the Silver Gull Trading up or staying put, members at the Silver Gull Beach Club make their cabanas their own, sometimes until death.
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Summer at the Silver Gull Sunday is "split day," or payday, for Matt Goldman and his crew of cabana boys at the Silver Gull Beach Club.
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Summer at the Silver Gull David and Linda Gordon's relationship simmered for decades, until that first summer at the Silver Gull Beach Club in Queens ushered in a Labor Day marriage proposal.
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An experimenter would crouch near the bag and either look right into the gull's eyes or turn away from the gull, measuring the amount of time until the gull pecked the bag.
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Summer at the Silver Gull They are hard to miss, the four glamorous women in bikinis who sunbathe every day in the same spot on the sand at the Silver Gull Beach Club.
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All around him, the Silver Gull was coming to life.
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Or a gull gliding past, searching for an elusive meal.
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The plane hit a herring gull and the jetliner was forced to make an emergency landing at J.F.K., where workers found pieces of the gull and a gaping hole in the nose of the airplane.
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Firefighters found this black-headed gull caught in a fishing line.
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All species of gull are protected, making a widespread cull impossible.
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The researchers collected gull eggs and moved them to artificial incubators.
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It banks, and I think, ah yes, that's a herring gull.
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The gull-billed tern is already listed as threatened in Virginia.
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You've Rob, you've got Willem, and then you got the gull.
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And so, at a recent performance of "La Traviata" in the Baths of Caracalla, an ancient ruin and longtime sea gull haunt, I listened as an operatic duet became a trio with a screeching sea gull.
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I saw a gull standing on top of another gull Richard Major, a principal research scientist in terrestrial research at the Australian Museum, told Mashable Australia that these birds might be, um, trying to get it on.
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"They cut all that stuff out," Lively said of the gull interactions.
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The 184 also has gull-wing doors and arms that fold up.
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How do your friends or family members feel about your gull obsession?
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The gull population along the coast declined, while inland populations remained healthy.
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The car's gull-wing doors, though fashionable, are known to get stuck.
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Or to sample the best homemade frozen margarita at the Silver Gull?
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Ms. Fezza, 0003, has been a Silver Gull member for a decade.
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Jockeying for cabanas can be a blood sport at the Silver Gull.
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Their summers at the Silver Gull were as routine as the tides.
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Both the wrapped-up sea gull and the shoe landed on them.
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The sea gull could not quite wrap its beak around the ball.
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On the western coast, mixes may be prepared with sea gull eggs.
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DeLorean was hailed for his innovative stainless steel, gull-winged car design.
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In a film, creating Gary would entail animating a gull conning another character.
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There are no gull-wing doors or retracting handles like on some Teslas.
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Maybe a bird crapped on them or a gull stole their ice cream.
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The 73 also has gull-wing doors and arms that fold up. 2.
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They separated some eggs in a clutch and played adult gull warning calls.
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MILFORD Gull and Gannet Frenzy, New Haven Bird Club Field Trip in Stratford.
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Once, a sea gull even smacked into a car at the Daytona 2555.
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While the animation in "Gary the Gull" is somewhat crude, the characters are irresistible.
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At exactly that moment, a gull swoops from the air and snatches its prey.
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Attawapiskat Chief Ignace Gull, elected last summer, did not respond to requests for comment.
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This half-bird, half-dinosaur was a seabird similar in size to a gull.
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Here's a gull mistaking a GoPro camera for food and flying away with it.
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Linda and David Gordon in the pool at the Silver Gull Beach Club in Queens.
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He speaks to a mouse, saving its life, and then to Kehaar, the injured gull.
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You know when the gull flies on the windowsill, pecks three times, and flies away?
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The ball's trajectory was languid and dreamy, like a gull gliding on an ocean breeze.
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Audouin's gull, Ebro delta, Catalonia Greater flamingos, Ebro delta, Catalonia White stork, Emporda wetlands, Catalonia European starlings, Lleida drylands, Catalonia Yellow legged gull, Roses, Spain Common swifts, Barcelona, Spain Black-winged stilt, Ebro delta, Catalonia Yellow legger gull, Llobregat delta, Catalonia Red-billed chough, Utxesa reservoir, Catalonia Great cormorant, Ibars reservoir, Catalonia European starling, Utxesa reservoir, Catalonia Greater flamingo, Ebro delta, Catalonia Common starling, Utxesa reservoir, Catalonia Xavi Bou spends most weekends photographing birds.
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The bird was a herring gull that had found itself in a messy (and tasty) predicament.
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After getting cleaned up, the gull was given the name Vinny — a nod to Vindaloo curry.
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On this night, it's the Tesla, the Model X S.U.V. with the gull-wing rear doors.
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And a big vat of tikka masala is an opportunity no gull can afford to miss.
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So he called the Gull Lake school district to see what, if anything, he could do.
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She is deciding whether to affiliate her family's lodge, the White Gull Inn, with the movement.
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Need to think of a good curry related name for him now - how about 'Korma the gull'!?
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The AMG GT-S doesn't have gull-wing doors like the old Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG (above).
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As you might have noticed, it has gull-wing doors, which make quite an impression upon onlookers.
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One of the more interesting samples, from a herring gull, has a white object tangled in it.
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" Mr. Gelfman smiled and looked around the Silver Gull and said, "I'm just grateful I'm still here.
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A Canadian goose and a Ring-billed Gull received IV fluids after both displayed serious overdose symptoms.
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The car also appears to come with gull-wing doors since it doesn't have traditional handle placement.
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But there's a reason the California gull holds a special place in the hearts of Utah residents.
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Designers mounted a gull-wing door on the driver's side, and a sliding door on the passenger side.
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Parts of Florida were flooded last month when Hurricane Hermine struck the state's northwest Gull of Mexico coast.
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" Others are as cryptically revealing as a BuzzFeed personality quiz: "Are you a giraffe or a sea gull?
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"We spent the entire summer intensifying our romance, and the Silver Gull was perfect for that," he said.
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"South Korea's chaebol have been complacent," said Lee Dong-gull, the chairman of state-run Korea Development Bank.
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The pope wished everyone his customary "good lunch," and a sea gull, aided by a hooded crow, obliged.
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Prototypes of the silver, two-seater sports cars with gull-wing doors first rolled off the line in Oct.
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One of my earliest David Attenborough memories was of a great black-backed gull chomping down on whole puffins.
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As much as I am a gull fan you are right—I do really enjoy all of the birds.
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The Silver Gull, which is open from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day, has 2,300 members and 457 cabanas.
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Like many seabirds (and not unlike sea turtles and crocodiles), the great black gull (Larus marinus) can drink saltwater.
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The European Southern Observatory's VLT Survey Telescope captured the details and features that comprise the nebula resembling a gull.
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If some mayors promise a chicken in every pot, Rome's have delivered a sea gull atop every garbage bin.
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He reported seeing 13 new species of gull while visiting the U.S.This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
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At the Silver Gull, one of the last oceanfront clubs in New York City, Sunday is no day of rest.
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An English doctor, William Gull, gave it its name in the 222s, but the condition had been recognized for centuries.
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As we boarded the black gull-wing Tesla Mr. Harari had rented for his visit, he brought up Aldous Huxley.
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Three other organizers — Dante Emmanuel Strobino, 35; Ngoc Loan Tran, 24; and Peter Gull Gilbert, 39 — were arrested on Wednesday.
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The Officer Collin Rose Memorial Foundation will pay nearly 600 students' lunch debt at Gull Lake Community Schools in Richland.
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And his loved ones say it's exactly what Rose, a 2006 graduate of Gull Lake High School, would have wanted.
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Nothing else looked like it — the dashing coupé was defined by its gull-wing doors and its stainless-steel skin.
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" Elsehwere in the state on Friday, all Gull Lake Community Schools in Richland were closed "due to high illness rates.
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The dramatic FV2030 concept car, shown here with its gull-wing doors open, is emblematic of Chery's leap into the future.
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For the rest of the time, all of the gull eggs were in physical contact with each other in the incubator.
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The graffiti at Silver Gull comes amid an uptick of reported hate crimes in New York, driven by anti-Semitic acts.
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It is primarily coastal in distribution, rarely venturing very far inland, but the laughing gull ranges from Nova Scotia to Venezuela.
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For example, the breeding population of the ivory gull in the Canadian Arctic has declined by 70 percent since the 1980s.
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Ellen Ilconich, who lives in Marlton, N.J., had a gull hover over her sandwich and pluck out the deli meat inside.
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Ellen Ilconich, who lives in Marlton, N.J., had a gull hover over her sandwich and pluck out the deli meat inside.
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It is about half the width of a regular car, has no steering wheel or seating positions and gull wing cargo doors.
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For now, though, maybe strap a trailer to that Model X – plus, those gull-wing doors are perfect for loading large packages.
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A new Lincoln Navigator concept with weird gull-wing doors had our readers mesmerized, as did a mildly refreshed Nissan GT-R.
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"Just lean 'em over there, Hon," the woman said, barely looking up from her lounge chair at the Silver Gull Beach Club.
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The Silver Gull, one of the last private oceanfront clubs in New York City, has changed little since it opened in 1963.
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Like Mr. Gelfman, most Silver Gull members tend to be longstanding and return every June to catch up and make new memories.
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That Ms. Ni Dhulchaointigh (pronounced nee-GULL-queen-tigg) would develop a product like Sugru would not have been easy to predict.
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According to accounts, the California gull once rescued crops in Utah that were being eaten by hordes of crickets, back in 1848.
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For this great convenience, Amazon can now pretty much gull every mayor in America into selling their schools, transportation systems, birthrights, etc.
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"This is not just a sea gull strategy where we are dumping a bunch of money and leaving town," Mr. Benioff said.
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Mike Eichenwald, who has been a member for four years, said he was hoping for a strong statement from the Silver Gull.
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Meredith Coulson is trying to decide whether to hang up a sign declaring that the White Gull Inn in Fish Creek, Wis.
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The duck-size creature looked like a cross between a sea gull and a cormorant, but with a beak full of teeth.
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The population of great black-backed gull is on the Amber List, for moderate decline, and has declined about 30% in recent decades.
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"That's not a sea gull," shouted Joe Potenza, as he sidestepped two large birds fighting over pizza scraps on the Bridge of Angels.
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"Gas chamber" was scrawled on a door, and a swastika and racial slurs covered nearby walls at Silver Gull Beach Club in Queens.
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Mr. Dingell (pronounced DING-gull) had represented what is now Michigan's 12th district, outside Detroit, since the Eisenhower administration, a 59-year run.
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Rancher Rick Toney has been forced to haul hay to his Gull Lake, Saskatchewan, ranch from 500 kilometers away to feed his cattle.
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Not only is it the size and color of a blue whale, it has more than seven screens, gull-wing doors and concertina steps.
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Meanwhile, the new controller unfolds from the bottom in a gull wing sort of motion to create a cozy space for your mobile device.
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But looking at the laughing gull, this absolutely beautiful bird with the black hood and white eye ring—there's nothing like that in Australia.
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Where you may see only pigeons, sparrows and the occasional sea gull, she has recorded 130 species, many of which she has beautifully photographed.
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Set in a very scenic desert, the commercial shows a man being welcomed into the DeLorean with the raise of the gull-wing door.
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You may want to think twice before driving this thing through the Starbucks drive-through, however, because the gull-wing doors don't have windows.
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When that club closed in the 1990s, its paddle ball devotees migrated to the Silver Gull, a short hop over the Marine Parkway Bridge.
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Each summer, the Silver Gull has several organized tournaments, usually won by Mr. Bort and whoever happens to be his partner at the time.
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Freeman wrote to Carson that she was "like the Mother Gull with her cheese sandwich," chewing it up before feeding it to her young.
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In an 1873 paper, English physician Sir William Gull described three cases of women who appeared extremely emaciated but had no other abnormal symptoms.
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The words "Heil Hitler" and "gas chamber" were scrawled on walls at the Silver Gull in Queens, one of the city's last beach clubs.
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Like the Model X, the Navigator concept featured gull-wing doors, though Ford said that feature won't be on the production version of the SUV.
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Photo: Gzzz (Wikimedia Commons)A new study seems to demonstrate that gull chicks can communicate information to their siblings—while they're still in the egg.
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The couple said they left their home in the Kensington section of Brooklyn every morning and stayed at the Silver Gull until 10 each night.
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The urn in another niche was guarded by a stuffed, open-winged sea gull perched atop the container, which was surrounded by colorful tropical coral.
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There's one of a 1950s-era 300 SL, a coupe with gull-wing doors that has become one of the most iconic Benzes ever made ...
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Fortunately, I soon figured out that "gull" is an Old English word that means SCAM (it's where we get the word "gullible" from) and #NowIKnow.
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He offers, for example, an affecting description of a herring gull grotesquely hobbled by a fishing lure and his successful efforts to free the creature.
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"The sea gull flew in from behind me," Mr. Fraser, a manager at the Old Schoolhouse pub in the city, said by phone on Wednesday.
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"The sea gull flew in from behind me," Mr. Fraser, a manager at the Old Schoolhouse pub in the city, said by phone on Wednesday.
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The Huna Tlingit traditionally occupied much of Southeast Alaska, and today work with Glacier Bay National Park to resume certain traditions, such as harvesting gull eggs.
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In a separate incident that occurred just two months later, the same hospital treated yet another gull that had fallen into a vat of tandoori sauce.
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Human-gull interactions can be the bane of beachgoers and make for popular online fodder, but are often bad for both the people and the birds.
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Maybe next time you're staring down a herring gull that's threatening your ice cream cone, you'll also develop an appreciation for these so-called garbage birds.
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The animation shows astronauts riding in a Tesla Model X, which swings open its gull wing door onto a sunset-drenched launchpad as instrumental music swells.
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To cite a recent example: Two topless sunbathers from Fort Tilden, a national recreation area east of the Silver Gull, walked past the club along the beach.
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As for their wedding reception in 2007, they held it, of course, at the Silver Gull, one of the last private oceanfront clubs in New York City.
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On weekends at the Silver Gull Beach Club, Marianne Fezza, third from left, pours a strawberry daiquiri into a huge glass and shares it with her neighbors.
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CreditCreditGeorge Etheredge/The New York Times When it came time to paint her cabana at the Silver Gull Beach Club, Marianne Fezza went with orange and yellow.
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The cabana is a staple of the Silver Gull, which has 457 of the aging, shedlike structures built in rows along a series of double-decker piers.
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After showing symptoms of an overdose, the Canada goose and the Ring-billed Gull received IV fluids and by Thursday were doing better, wildlife center staff posted.
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A spokesman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds reassured dog owners that this was not "typical gull behavior" in a statement to The Guardian.
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A sea gull circles overhead as they move smoothly along the shoreline, the only swimmers on an empty beach save for the occasional dog walker and sunbather.
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"The thing that shocked us the most was the smell," Lucy Kells, a nurse at the Veterinary hospital that cared for the tikka'd gull, told the Guardian.
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Embracing skin care does not make you a foolish and conceited gull, even if it also might not turn you into your best and most enlightened self.
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And yes, the scientific name for its official state bird is Larus californicus, or California gull, which means Utah's state bird is actually named for another state.
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Born and raised in Southport, Fleetwood as a teenager won his club championship at Formby Hall, roughly six miles as the sea gull flies from Royal Birkdale.
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I've come to like gulls ever since I spoke to the young Tasmanian man who ventured all the way to the U.S. just to see our many gull species, and the herring gull is an especially impressive one—it's a cunning and graceful bird that's bigger than the most common American hawks and seems to cope with human presence by standing its ground and taking advantage of whatever resources it can.
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"This poor kitten must have been through a terrifying ordeal – seemingly swooped upon by a gull, before being dropped to the ground," RSPCA Cymru said in a statement.
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There's a real romance to the herring gull, because it's a species that we should have had in Australia a hundred times over but it's never gotten here.
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Affected birds shared the warning The researchers studied 90 yellow-legged gull eggs, divided into "clutches," which is a term for all of the eggs in one nest.
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The DeLorean Motor Company of Humble, Texas, has been given the green light by the federal government to restart low-volume production of the gull-winged sports car.
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The prospect, however dim, of a reality show set at the Silver Gull, which opened in 1963, got members chatting about what such a show might look like.
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A gull strike forced a Russian airliner to land in a cornfield, Instagram is getting into the fact-checking game, and new technology is catching lightning from afar.
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There valleys filled with crepuscular winter light; there decrepit resorts amid the pines; there the sublime Manhattan skyline at dusk; there the lone, low drift of a gull.
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I had tried a gull-wing Model X last fall with an earlier version of Autopilot, but since then the stakes — for both Tesla and consumers — have soared.
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But if a squirrel runs unbidden up your arm demanding food or a sea gull snatches a sandwich from your hands, it can generate an emotion close to outrage.
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The elite model has aluminum panels and tempered glass side panels and a top cover, all of which is affixed to two separate hinges for opening gull-wing style.
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The freestyle doors really open up the car without the gull-wing design of the Tesla Model X and removes a center pillar between the front and back doors.
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Finally, to complete my '80s super-vehicle theme, I'd slapped a Ghostbusters logo on each of the DeLorean's gull-wing doors, then added personalized plates that read ECTO-88.
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The combination of two of the giant shipbuilders would ease competition and excess capacity, which have depressed ship prices, KDB Chairman Lee Dong-gull said at a news conference.
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Despite the hospital's uncertainty about exactly how Curry Bird landed in this dilemma, this isn't the first or even second time a gull has wound up bathed in orange.
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To them, the real merit of the Silver Gull is tucked away in a rear corner of the parking lot: eight courts on either side of four concrete walls.
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A goose and a gull overdosed this week after ingesting some of the hundreds of prescription pills that were discovered dumped at a park in California, wildlife officials confirmed.
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Carson wrote back, "Perhaps a subtitle of Man Against the Earth might be 'What the Mother Gull Brought Up.' " In the fall of 1958, her mother had a stroke.
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The Silver Gull is run by Ortega National Parks, which also runs the Breezy Point Surf Club, about two miles to the west, which sits back from the water.
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Mickelson's gallery during the second round also included a sea gull that tried to take off with his ball on the 10th fairway, after Mickelson had crushed a drive.
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KDB chairman Lee Dong-gull told reporters the view was based on due diligence done on the loss-making unit by Samil, the Korean affiliate of auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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Rescuers were finally able to clean the curry off of the herring gull after he put up a bit of a fight and covered the veterinary team in curry water.
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The phones feature a titanium alloy frame, a real leather finish on the back, and a gull-wing door-style rear panel that opens to reveal your SIM card slot.
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The Enverge certainly attracted a lot of attention here in Detroit with its gull-wing doors, "floating" digital dash-screen, and alleged range of 370 miles on a single charge.
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Father-daughter pair Emma and Ed Zajdel were joined by friends for a day of fishing on the waters of Little Gull Shoals, near Maryland's Assateague Island, on June 30th.
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These gull chicks respond to predators by crouching and freezing, but in some years, there might be fewer predators, so perhaps in those years the babies don't develop defensive behaviors.
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It's hard to ignore these birds — they can weigh up to 2.3 kilograms (5 pounds), and the wingspan of the great black-backed gull can reach 5 feet 7 inches.
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But at the Silver Gull, they immediately melded with a cheery extended family of members along the Pool Court who have long rented cabanas, some of them over several generations.
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When the black customized Model X with the company's logo on the side pulled in, and its gull-wing doors popped open, I felt as if my Batmobile had arrived.
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N.Y.C. Nature If you were making a film and needed to cast a bird in the Edward G. Robinson role, you'd hand the script to a great black backed gull.
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But in May 2017, the administration of the oft-maligned mayor, Virginia Raggi, graced its official Facebook page with a photo of a sea gull standing triumphantly over the Forum.
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On the Friday evening before the final big weekend of summer, members of one of New York's last private beach clubs, the Silver Gull in Queens, received an ominous email.
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Living in About 20 miles from Manhattan as the sea gull flies, the beachfront city is known for its older residents, but is increasingly home to young families as well.
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The landfill, he hoped, would help him realize a dream he'd held for six years: to see a laughing gull, a "seagull" generally considered a nuisance by your average American beachgoer.
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Mr. Krivitsky, a Silver Gull member who has played paddle ball at the club for more than 30 years, was referring to Kevin Bort, whose nickname pertains to his flared feet.
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KDB may offer about 500 billion won ($468.42 million), proportional to its stake, to help fund GM's pledged investment in the unit, KDB Chairman and CEO Lee Dong-gull told Reuters.
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A gull cawed me awake the other morning, and I found myself grateful that it was nature and not the ping of a phone that had brought me to the surface.
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After factory workers fished the cannibalistic gull out from his the pool of chicken curry, they handed him off to the Vale Wildlife Hospital, where he was given a much-needed bath.
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"Gull embryos alter their motility when exposed to alarm calls emitted by adults, an effect that causes the egg to vibrate," says the study, published in the journal Nature, Ecology and Evolution.
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The researchers hope their findings will help to protect the gulls—specifically the European herring gull, whose British population has decreased by 60 percent between 1969 and 2015, according to one assessment.
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We were there with a quartet of male garden gnomes in gray seersucker skirts, a golden-gowned mermaid, an iridescent jelly fish and a sea gull in a feather-bedecked knickerbocker suit.
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Built from both an actual hot tub and a real DeLorean chassis complete with functional gull wing doors, the car can be raised or lowered to create more headroom for taller party guests.
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That day the soundtrack to the islands was the cacophony of thousands of murres roosting together, which pretty much drowned out the songs of all other seabirds, save for the occasional gull squawk.
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The Silver Gull is part of a disappearing world of private waterfront clubs in New York City, where most people flock to crowded public beaches or head elsewhere for more pristine seashore spots.
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It's also important to note that the researchers only focused on one species, and at least here in the United States, you might find four or more gull species on a given beach.
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Walking around the Ghetto, I felt like the witness to a crime when I stumbled upon a sea gull as big as a Labrador stabbing its beak into a pile of garbage bags.
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Among the most distinctive of our native gulls, the laughing gull is well named; its rollicking call is as evocative of the summer beach season as the smell of Coppertone and salt air.
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This year about 10,000 people descended on the 20-inch-thick sheet of ice over Gull Lake and fished from 20,000 pre-drilled holes as part of the 28th annual Brainerd Ice Fishing Extravaganza.
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Does this make Emma a pitiable prototype for the passive female gull of mass culture, operating mindlessly under "false consciousness", or a feminist avant la lettre who subverts bourgeois morality and suffers the consequences?
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They come in search of watch-listed species like the Western snowy plover, long-billed curlew, Franklin's gull and Brewer's sparrow, along with hundreds of other more common species like the white-faced ibis.
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The first, in June, involved a bird rescued by the UK-based Vale Wildlife Hospital after the gull fell into a vat of chicken tikka masala while attempting to snatch a piece of chicken.
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Summer at the Silver Gull They were all out there, slapping the ball on the sun-baked concrete: the Doctor, the Plumber, the Killer, Five Borough Phil, Rockaway Steve and, of course, the Duck.
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Having written about the Silver Gull before, I had always been intrigued by this odd hidden wonder jutting out onto a strangely deserted beach in New York City, a short drive from downtown Manhattan.
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Other states have also honored obscure animals in an effort to spotlight conservation efforts or recognize their contribution to the state's heritage, including the California gull in Utah and the American paddlefish in Mississippi.
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Legend has it that in 1971, a friend of Mr. Pratesi rescued an injured female gull from a Tuscan island and brought it in a shoe box to his office at the Rome zoo.
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"The Duck's easy to spot because of his walk," Scott Krivitsky said, leaning against the chain-link fence encircling the paddle ball courts at the Silver Gull Beach Club on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens.
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No one bets against him now at the Silver Gull, which The New York Times has been visiting this summer to chronicle a season of its traditions and amenities, including its beach, pools and cabanas.
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That is the unglamorous designation for their idyllic nest — a cabana facing the family pool at the Silver Gull Beach Club, an oceanfront summer colony near the western tip of the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens.
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With a syringe for a beak, bent drinking straws for legs and a foam cup for its head, "Gull Sculpture" is an antidote to the overproduced nonsense that makes up the rest of the exhibition.
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When it was built, the steel and concrete, gull-wing-shaped structure designed by the Finnish architect Eero Saarinen was so evocative of flight, the mere sight of it was supposed to initiate the journey.
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Recently hatched gull chick and eggs (Image: Mary Stoddard)Some of life's simplest questions get swept under the rug for a long time—after all, the most widespread phenomena often require the most data to understand.
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Unfortunately, time-traveling DeLoreans are notoriously unreliable: flux capacitor parts are impossible to find, the gull-wing doors leak, and it literally takes a freaking lightning bolt to jump-start the things if the battery dies.
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After several articles were published, a West Coast production company contacted the Silver Gull about shooting a reality show at the club next year, using its members and their stories, said the general manager, Jamie Blatman.
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Not to mention that the Silver Gull, which is operated as a concession on federal parkland, is open to the public and is required to admit anyone who can purchase a membership or a day pass.
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It is interesting to note that this familiar New York City bird is the largest gull in the world, with a wingspan that can reach about five feet and a weight of more than four pounds.
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Oh, and as for the other Matt the Cabana Boy, I have my own complaint: I tweeted the cabana story to him, but, unlike our real-life Matt at the Silver Gull, he has not responded promptly.
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John DeLorean, who designed muscle cars for General Motors before striking out on his own with the futuristic, gull-winged sports car that bore his own name, has gone down in history for his company's spectacular collapse.
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DeLorean, who died in 2005, was an executive at G.M. before breaking with the company in the 1970s to start his own, which created the stainless-steel gull-wing sports car for which he is best known.
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I sipped my Gull beer and felt great awe for this country, where the national team coach is a friend who sometimes takes in your son for the weekend and where even the superstars are like family.
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Downy gray chicks chased after any adult that was plausibly their parent, begging for a regurgitated meal, or banded together for safety from the gull-like skuas that preyed on the orphaned and the failing-to-thrive.
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With a sea gull and a mouse for allies, they raid Woundwort's stronghold, spirit away some of his captive does and confront his forces in a pitched battle in defense of their new warren on Watership Down.
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When John Del Signore first started to report on Zardulu for Gothamist, the word he used most often was "hoax," with all of its attendant notions of someone trying to gull the innocent for base material gain.
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"I visited Sea-Gull and saw that they have the same machines as in the Swiss factories," he said, referring to a company based in Tianjin that is said to be the world's largest producer of mechanical watches.
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Mr. Forden, who was chief of the Soviet-Eastern European division at Langley, met Colonel Kuklinski when the officer left Poland for summer sailing missions that were disguised as vacations (his code name was Gull) in Northern Europe.
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Brigman also wrote poetry, and the images of her landscapes — the lone lunging tree, the circling gull, and the unclaimed mountain peak — appear in her book of poetry Song of a Pagan to invoke both stillness and struggle.
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Reading his lists changed me a little bit—this past weekend, I found myself watching a group of common gulls foraging and lounging around a pier, when a suddenly a rarer gull species I'd never seen before swooped overhead.
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The New York Times will visit the Silver Gull throughout the summer, chronicling a season at a beach club where Mr. Gelfman is among its longest-standing members, having joined a couple of years after it opened in 21978.
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