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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: fill23ca on December 26, 2007, 05:44:27 PM

Title: Kelp Gull?
Post by: fill23ca on December 26, 2007, 05:44:27 PM

Outside Barrie this afternoon and noticed a group of ringbilled gulls in a plowed field.  This larger gull was standing and so I took a few pics.  It has black wings with the white tips.  Pretty cool if it is.  This far north at this time of year.


http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg25 ... GP3140.jpg (http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg252/fill23ca/IMGP3140.jpg)
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg25 ... GP3137.jpg (http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg252/fill23ca/IMGP3137.jpg)
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg25 ... GP3120.jpg (http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg252/fill23ca/IMGP3120.jpg)

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Post by: GStuart on December 26, 2007, 06:07:55 PM

From the photographs I can't tell whether the gull has pink or yellow legs.  I would look at it and just assume that it was a Great Black-backed Gull, which is far more common than the accidental Kelp Gull.

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Post by: fill23ca on December 26, 2007, 06:22:14 PM

darn it.  I have a feeling you're right.  Rookie mistake.