Iceland Gulls are scarce but regular passage migrants and winter visitors They arrive from autumn into northern and western Britain & Ireland and then move south as the winter progresses. Although there are hot spots around fish quays, harbours and landfill sites, they can be found by carefully searching gull flocks at loafing and roost sites. They are scattered around the coast of Britain with concentrations evident in west Cornwall, northeast and northwest England, Caithness, the Northern Isles and the Outer Hebrides. There are records from many inland locations, particularly in central England where the gull roosts are well watched. In Ireland the distribution is predominantly coastal.