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General Information |
Gull Identification |
Immature Gulls |
Key to Adult Gulls |
Species List | |
Sabine's Gull (similar
species)
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Breeding Adult - black bill with yellow tip, dark hood,
gray mantle
Photo by Jack Binch
©Jack Binch
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Juvenile - brown on back and upperwing coverts; the feathers have a fine,
pale edging
by Milt Moody
©Milton G. Moody
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Juvenile - brown mantle, back of head and sides of neck; dark tip of
tail,
black outer primaries form a narrowly triangular black wing patch as in
adult
by Paul Higgins
©Paul Higgins
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First Winter - (seen rarely in North America) gray on head, neck and
mantle,
still brownish on wings
by Paul Higgins
©Paul Higgins
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First Winter - the wing pattern with three triangular patches is present
in all ages.
by Jack Binch
©Jack Binch
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Sabine's Gull
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Similar Species
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Bonaparte's Gull
- has white triangular patches on the wing tips and a black trailing
edge on the primaries |
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Juvenile Black-legged Kittiwake
- shows a narrow "M" pattern from above when flying;
lacks juvenile Sabine's considerable gray-brown coloring on
head and sides of breast; does not not show the solid
triangular, patched wing pattern of the Sabine's |
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Black-headed Gull (not seen in Utah) - has white
triangular patch on wing tips similar to Bonaparte's. |
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Bonaparte's Gulls
- have narrow,white triangular patch on wing tips
Photo
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Kendall Brown
©Kendall W. Brown
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2nd Year Black-legged Kittiwake -
has a yellow bill;
looses the black "M"
pattern
on the upperwing
which is somewhat similar to the Sabine's
Photo
by
Paul Higgins
©Paul Higgins
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