Mono Monday - Jonathan Livingstone Seagull

Tarapuka - black billed gull

"Feed me!"  Screams the youngster.
The black billed gull is a near threatened species of gull.  This gull is found only in New Zealand.having arrived from Australia about 250,000 years ago.  They hold protected status in NZ.  There is quite a thriving community of them in the Nelson Lakes.