Adjective modifier

• black-backed: The best-known case is herring gull versus lesser black-backed gull.

• ring-billed: At least one adult Ring-billed gull was among them.

• glaucous: A glaucous gull was reported from the ARC site this morning.

Converse of object

• breed: It was designated for its estuaries and adjacent coastal habitats, which are important for breeding gulls, terns and wintering waterfowl.

• wheel: Colin Parker Tumbling clouds, wheeling gulls... You see, the scenery has a poetic effect on you!

• head: Gulls were a welcome site among the Black Headed Gulls on the flood.

Modifies a noun

• chick: Herring gull chicks peck at a red spot on their parents's bill to induce their parents to regurgitate food.

• colony: We will stop at a seal and sea gull colony in Spring Passage.

• wing: Its most striking feature is the inverted gull wing.

• specie: There is normally a good congregation of the commoner gull species around the ponds or roosting on the golf course.

• population: Tuesday 12 July 2005 A large raptor soared over St Leonards on Sea today causing the gull population to explode with anxiety.

Noun used with modifier

• herring: Was there a herring gull with an olive branch too?

• sea: She thought the sea gull would not help her.