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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: MikeIrwin on May 24, 2009, 10:13:11 AM

Title: First Year Little Gull?
Post by: MikeIrwin on May 24, 2009, 10:13:11 AM

I took this picture this morning out at Port Stanley looking for the Whimberels (without success). The wings appear to be too dark to be a Bonnie to me, but I've been wrong before -

(http://www.mikeirwin.ca/birdphotos/albums/Winter-Spring%202009/gull2.JPG)

Any insight would be appreciated.

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Post by: raypye on May 24, 2009, 12:02:23 PM

Little Gull
They are usually easer to ID when they are standing beside a Bonaparte's Gull.
The dark wing bar (ulnar bar), cap, and red legs
references: Gulls of Americas, Gulls, and Sibley
Rayfield Pye