Brown-Hooded Gull

Look for this small gull with a distinctive dark hood and reddish bill along coastlines, estuaries, rivers and inland wetlands across southern South America, where it forages by wading in shallows or picking insects from freshly ploughed fields. It is often seen in loose flocks, its harsh, chattering calls carrying over open water or farmland. Coastal mudflats and wetland margins during the austral breeding season, roughly spring and summer in the region, are especially productive.