Saturday, August 30, 2014

Gull Identification Challenege

Usually these challenges happen in the winter when there is a larger variety of gulls, but I saw a challenging bird at a beach club in New Jersey that may be a Lesser Black-Backed Gull. The bird was about the size of a Herring Gull and had dark grey wings, but not as dark as an adult Great Black-Backed Gull. It had no brown on it except for a few streaks on the neck. The bill seemed to be all black and the legs looked yellowish. The bird was about as timid as most of the other gulls, allowing me to approach up to 10 feet from the bird. Any suggestions of what it may be?

(UPDATE: Realized it was just a young Herring Gull with abnormally dark wings)

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