Plumage is fresh-no wear so 1st winter plumage?. Note the light tips of
primaries, secondaries, coverts, and tail. Impression without reference is a
larger rather than medium to small species. The bill seems thicker than
Ring-billed. All black bill is important imo. Too light for 1st winter Herring?
I don’t see any obvious combination of field marks that would eliminate
Herring. Black backs? Possible.
On Nov 10, 2021, at 6:35 PM, Joe Cochran <JCochran2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:JCochran2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
I had this gull at Leroy Elmore and I’m having trouble with an ID – any Ideas?
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