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Date: | Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:42:24 -0500 |
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At Hoover Reservoir today, among what seemed like thousands of ring-billed gulls, I saw a yellow-billed, black-legged, solid black wing tipped gull like bird. As the Audubon Master Guide to Birding states "winter adults have a gray suffusion across the back of the head and nape," as this bird did. Could it have been a winter version of a black-legged kittiwake? In studying the guides....I don't know what else it could have been. I hope someone else sees it. It was flying on both sides of the dam...even sitting in the water for a while, where I could see its black legs paddling along. I think the previously seen immature blacked legged kittiwake could not have grown up this fast.
Dale Brubeck
Worthington, Ohio
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