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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: accwai on November 19, 2008, 10:09:00 PM

Title: Second opinion on gull id please
Post by: accwai on November 19, 2008, 10:09:00 PM

Took this one on Aug 30 at Humber Bay Park East during CNE air show:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3242/3045087738_a958604698_o.jpg)

It definitely isn't a ring-billed gull.  May be a juvenile American Herring Gull but I'm not sure.  Second opinion would be greatly appreciated.

Andy

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Post by: Brian Bailey on November 20, 2008, 11:11:39 PM

I'm NOT a gull expert.  I've never had the patience for it, but this one certainly looks like a juvenile Herring Gull to me.  Ring-billed are by far the most common there at any time of year, but there's usually one or two Herring around as well.

BB