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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: denis on July 07, 2011, 09:57:28 PM

Title: glaucous gull
Post by: denis on July 07, 2011, 09:57:28 PM

i,m thinking first winter glaucous gull,taken at the rouge last week.
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6056/5914269532_39e19fe143_b.jpg)

Title: Gull...?
Post by: bernie2112 on July 07, 2011, 11:26:59 PM

A nice shot - as usual - (do you use a blind BTW?) - but why Glaucous - it looks like a Ring-billed to me.

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Post by: denis on July 08, 2011, 09:05:41 AM

thanks bernie.
no blind.there were 2 of them.very approachable
why glaucous? it was 2x as big as a ringbill,and the first winter glaucous,was the only one in my book,with a pink bill and solid black tip.

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Post by: thouc on July 08, 2011, 03:22:40 PM

I believe this is a Herring Gull born last year (called first summer?), they have similar bill coloration as young Glaucous Gulls. The dark wing tips and tail gives it away (Glaucous should have very pale tail and wing tips).

/Thomas

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Post by: denis on July 08, 2011, 05:39:33 PM

thank you thomas.
i,m sure your book is better than mine.i dont have sibley,s.i,m using national geographic.in mine,it shows first winter herring gull as having none or very little varying pink,only at base of bill.that,s what i based my I.D. on.upon further investigation,you,re right about the glaucous beeing a lot paler.
thanks again.

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Post by: thouc on July 08, 2011, 10:12:10 PM

I have National Geographic also, but since it's lacking picture of summer Herring Gulls, I had to do some research online for pictures of the bill coloration of summer birds.

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Post by: Jim Thomson on July 09, 2011, 05:01:40 AM

Might I suggest that it is a Nelson's Gull.  ie a hybrid between the Herring Gull and Glaucous Gull.

The very pink beak is typical of the 1st Summer Glaucous.  while the overall colouring is more typical of the 1st Summer Herring

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Post by: denis on July 10, 2011, 06:05:43 PM

thank you for that jim.
very interesting,and one gull i,ve not heard of before.