{"id":9708,"date":"2020-06-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/grey-headed-gull\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T08:15:40","slug":"graukopfmowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/kruger-national-park-news\/kruger-park-bird-guide\/grey-headed-gull\/","title":{"rendered":"Graukopfm\u00f6we"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Appearance<\/h2>\n<p>The Grey-headed Gull has a complete white body with a grey head. The Grey-headed Gull has an iconic red-purple beak and legs. The wings and the back of the bird are also grey in colour with a few white feathers mixed in between.<\/p>\n<h2>Diet<\/h2>\n<p>Grey-headed Gulls feed on crustaceans, insects and fish and can be seen wading on coastal areas as well as marshy ground digging up food in the mud. Grey-headed Gulls feed in large flocks and often form a white mass with the amount of birds in the area.<\/p>\n<h2>Name<\/h2>\n<p>Grey-headed Gull [Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus]\n<h2>Breeding<\/h2>\n<p>These birds breed in very large colonies of thousands in marshland and reedbeds. Females lay up to 3 eggs in a nest that can be on land or floating in the water. The young take 2 years to fully mature.<\/p>\n<h2>Behaviour<\/h2>\n<p>Grey-headed Gulls are not migratory birds but are much more widespread during the winter months. They have been encountered as a vagrant species in areas like Spain, Italy and North America. This is a naturally loud species of bird with a sound resembling the caw,caw of a Crow, but less raspy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appearance The Grey-headed Gull has a complete white body with a grey head. The Grey-headed Gull has an iconic red-purple beak and legs. The wings and the back of the bird are also grey in colour with a few white feathers mixed in between. Diet Grey-headed Gulls feed on crustaceans, insects and fish and can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kruger-park-bird-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}