Outdoor Ontario

Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Kevin H. on October 23, 2014, 07:40:23 PM

Title: Black Legged Kittiwake
Post by: Kevin H. on October 23, 2014, 07:40:23 PM

Or juvi Bonaparte's

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5597/14990587564_4e241d10c0_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oQEFqh)

Title: Re: Black Legged Kittiwake
Post by: thouc on October 23, 2014, 09:35:55 PM

It has an unusually dark neck band, but it is a first winter Bonaparte's Gull. Note dark trailing edge of wing (Kittiwake has white trailing edge, except tip), gap between dark on front end of wing at tip and the dark diagonal marking (joined together in Kittiwake making a W shape) and relatively long and slender bill (shorter and thicker in Kittiwake).

/Thomas

Title: Re: Black Legged Kittiwake
Post by: Kevin H. on October 24, 2014, 12:54:36 PM

Thanks my buddy bet me $20 it was a Kittiwake I'll enjoy those beers  :D