ML88482221
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Immature Unknown sex - X
Media notes
The pale pink legs, at least just above the water line, are visible here. My impression is that the GBBG's eye is proportionally small for a gull, small enough so that it might be an ID clue in a bird that was challenging for one reason or another.
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
- Model
- COOLPIX P900
- ISO
- 180
- Focal length
- 357 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 4608 pixels x 3456 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.81 MB