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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Janet Tubb on March 17, 2017, 06:51:55 PM

Title: Glaucous Gull ?
Post by: Janet Tubb on March 17, 2017, 06:51:55 PM

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Title: Re: Glaucous Gull ?
Post by: Rotarran on March 17, 2017, 10:32:30 PM

No. Too small.  Glaucous Gulls are huge, only the Great Black-backed Gulls are bigger.

Title: Re: Glaucous Gull ?
Post by: thouc on March 17, 2017, 10:38:46 PM

It's a first winter Ring-billed Gull. Also, Glaucous (and Iceland) Gull have white wing tips.

/Thomas