Plank Lane, Wigan

Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larus fuscus), Leigh tip

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The bird has been colour-ringed and dyed, part of a study that proved that birds breeding in the huge colony at Walney commuted daily to feed on landfill sites around Liverpool and Manchester.

Uploaded to Geograph by Mike Pennington on 10 June 1984

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