Contributor
Date
Location
- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Playback not used
Observation details
Continuing rarity. Being fed with RBGU. Recorded and photographed at extremely close range. Shockingly tame, coming in to feed just feet away. Also shockingly large, notably taller and larger than all nearby Ring-billed Gulls. Mantle quite obviously darker than RBGU; quite a different feel than the only-subtly-darker canus subspecies. Long beak with uneven, pale-brown ring. Larger flecks on head. Legs dull green, very obviously different than RBGU. Audio seems to be the first in eBird for the taxon. The bird can be heard throughout the recording, which is mostly RBGU, mostly doing a "kek" call. The Kamchatka Gull has lower, quacking calls. The calls can easily be told visually on the spectrogram by the neat banding, somewhat nasal aspect (strong banding on higher frequencies as well as lower),and lower fundamental. At the very end there is a longer call that has these same characteristics. Brent tried some playback from online and it did not seem to react.
Technical information
- Recorder
- iPhone
- Microphone
- Accessories
- Original file size
- 5.63 MB