Re: LITTLE GULL

["Cliff and Lisa Weisse" <october at ida dot net>]

I received the following from "well-known Utah birder":
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| How was a Ross's Gull ruled out?


I'm not sure this isn't a joke but I'll answer it anyway.  I
can only assume that you looked at the photos?

-Ross's Gull has a much shorter bill than this bird.

-Ross's Gull has longer, more sharply pointed wings than
this bird.

-NO plumage of Ross's Gull has a black head.

-Ross's Gull has a wedge shaped tail with the central
rectrices longest and the outer rectrices shortest.

-The under side of the wing on Ross's Gull is paler gray
than the blackish under side of the wing on this bird.  In
fact NO gull has a uniformly dark under wing with white
trailing edge, like this bird, except Little Gull.

Cliff



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