ML240163871

Age

Not specified

Sex

Not specified

Media notes

Shows how dark the gull's upperparts can look at a distance, and how the legs showed little or no pink if one was not close.

Observation details

Larger than a nearby Herring Gull, though not by as much as I expected. Appears to be a second winter bird with two-tone, fairly heavy bill: whitish head, blackish, irregularly patterned upperparts, whitish underparts, pale pink legs. As reported in an eBird checklist on March 3, its basically white tail has black on the distal portion of the outer tail feathers, not all across the tip of the tail. Small, dark eye. The under tail coverts are white, marked irregularly with scattered fine black lines.

Technical information

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