Yellow Billed Silver Gull

["Frank O'Connor" <>]

At 23:35 21/07/2003 +1000, Vin wrote:
> Anyway, on Saturday, I noticed what seemed to
> be an out
> of place seagull at Tooradin, Victoria. It had yellow
> legs and bill, and stood out from the 50 or so others
> which were red or blackish. Couldnt find anything in the
> books I had, so just wondering if this was an abberant
> form or something else? Are these things common?
>
> I have put up a page with this and a few other birds that I currently
> cant properly identify at
> http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~vhl/unidentified.html

The bill/legs look red when I checked the web page???

As Paul Taylor found (this shows that putting keywords on your web page
helps!), I described a yellow legged/billed Silver Gull found at Lake
Monger in Perth in January 1999.  Go to my website below, click on
Articles, and then on the sixth article (May 1999).

I asked Birding-Aus at the time about Yellow-billed Gull, but I had to
finally conclude that it was a Yellow-billed Gull.  I got one
response from David James that Yellow-billed/legged Silver Gulls were
quite common (as common as 1 in 3 juveniles in the right season). 
This didn't quite ring true to me, but it is good to see that there are a
few around.

Vin, by the way, if you haven't had any other replies, the final bird is
a Red-capped Plover (note the dark mark on the shoulder).  The stint
superficially looks like a Red-necked Stint, but I am surprised that
there is no sign of breeding plumage on the neck, but some on the
wings.  I would need to check my references for further
details.  Hopefully someone else will get back to you.

Some advice for future photos that you put on your web site.
1. Include the date of the sighting.  The season can make a
difference.
2. Give more details of the location (e.g. State/Country).  I don't
know where Greenwich Bay or Newport is?  Rhode Island in the
USA?

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