The Sooty Gull is a beautiful distinctive dark gull, with long legs and a long bicoloured bill.
It is native to the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Gulf of Oman, the Persian Gulf and its range extends as far east as Pakistan.
It is also native to the east coast of Africa as far south as Tanzania and Mozambique.
The Sooty Gull occurs as a vagrant in India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and Bahrain.
It is a coastal bird, seldom going further out to sea than about 10 km. 
It seldom moves inland or visits freshwater locations.

Salalah Beach, Dhofar Region, Oman, 2 & 9 February 2017