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Date: | Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:50:18 -0800 |
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Hey all -
Many sharp eyeballs scanned the gull flock at E. 72nd
Street this morning. White-winged species and Lesser
Black-backeds were easy to come by, especially with
the ice shelf pushing the birds closer to us. Here
are rough numbers:
Bonaparte's Gull 1
Thayer's Gull 2 distant adult and stunning looks at
a point-blank second-winter
Iceland Gull 5 two adults were both Kumlein's and
three first-yr birds
Lesser Black-backed Gull 15 three adults were
present, and every age group was represented
Glaucous Gull 8 first-yr, third-yr, and adult birds
There was also interesting hybrid-type (first-yr
GlacuousxHerring?), but I will let others touch on
that. John Pogacnik reported a third-year California
Gull earlier, and we did see a darker-mantled
third-year gull, but overall jizz, bill size, etc. of
that bird were closer to Herring.
Good birding all -
Gabe Leidy
Cleveland
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