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The bird is known for its unique laughter-like calls and has travelled thousands of kilometres to reach the southern State.
Laughing gull, a migratory bird from North America, has been sighted for the first time in the country at the Chittari estuary in Kasaragod district.
C. Sreekanth, a birdwatcher and school teacher, spotted the bird and photographed it.
The bird, known for its unique laughter-like calls, has travelled thousands of kilometres from North America to the coastal region of the State.
The laughing gull is a medium-sized gull of North and South America.
Named for its laugh-like call, it is an opportunistic omnivore and scavenger.
It breeds in large colonies mostly along the Atlantic coast of North America, the Caribbean, and northern South America.
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