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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: mark75 on January 04, 2009, 09:45:57 PM

Title: Lesser Black-Backed Gulls - Variable Leg colour ?
Post by: mark75 on January 04, 2009, 09:45:57 PM

I just returned from St. John's. There are a few Lesser Black-backed gulls but there was also a sighting of a Slaty-backed gull. Among the thousands of gulls of Quidi Vidi Lake ( A must-see for birders who are visiting in winter, btw ), I saw a gull that I thought was a LBBG but it had pink legs. It was smaller than many of the Herring gulls so its size puts it more in line with a LBBG. Just curious if anyone knows if LBBGs can have pink legs