ML105837321
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The adult winter plumaged BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE was a most cooperative bird. It was there the whole time and often flew right over us. Description: all the field marks for this gull were well seen: “dipped in black ink” wing tips with no white spots, gray mantle with pale inner primaries darker on secondaries and wing coverts, all greenish-yellow unmarked bill, black legs and feet, dark gray mark behind black eye with lighter gray smudging on nape. This bird was first seen but not reported by Bob Showler on Thurs. Jan. 3. He didn’t have binoculars at that time and only new it was something different. The next day he went back with binoculars and thought the bird was either a Mew Gull or Kittiwake. Rick Fridell was notified Fri. night about the bird. This is only the third Utah record the last being in 1987 seen by only two observers in Moab and the first being a dead bird found at Fish Springs N.W.R.
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