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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: bronco on April 04, 2015, 07:54:03 AM

Title: Help to ID this Gull please
Post by: bronco on April 04, 2015, 07:54:03 AM

As always any help is very much appreciated

(http://i1304.photobucket.com/albums/s539/bronco1941/2015-04-03-220_zpssth8zofs.jpg)
(http://i1304.photobucket.com/albums/s539/bronco1941/2015-04-03-225_zpsnjc1dung.jpg)

Title: Re: Help to ID this Gull please
Post by: Brian Bailey on April 04, 2015, 08:09:17 AM

That's a first winter Iceland Gull.  They can be hard to distinguish from Glaucous, (especially with no sense of scale) but Glaucous don't have an all dark bill at any age.  


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Title: Re: Help to ID this Gull please
Post by: bronco on April 04, 2015, 01:44:18 PM

Thank you Brian - another new one for me.