Learning to fly
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Learning to fly by Stephen Craven as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 10 Jul 2014
This injured herring gull chick was being cared for by a local resident. It was at the stage of flapping its wings to try to fly, but without a parent to teach it was some way off succeeding yet.