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qwuni
- qʷəni
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- N
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seagull
Details
- Note
- See also qw'uqw'tiq', small type of seagull.
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qwuni
- qʷəni
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- Noun
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seagull
Details
- Ethnobiological notes
- Twenty species of gulls are known to British Columbia. Two species—mew gull and glaucous-winged gull—are very common and breed within the Hul’q’umi’num’ territory. The last of these species—the glaucous-winged gull—is widely known as the “seagull” of British Columbia. Gull eggs, likely mainly of mew gull and glaucous-winged gull, were formerly gathered for food during June and July.
- Binomial name
- [Larus spp., especially L. canus Linnaeus (mew gull) and L. glaucescens Naumann (glaucous-winged gull)]