Hi all,
Many would have missed Denise Goodfellow's potentially
remarkable sighting in her cunningly disguised rarity
report. Not being an expert on gulls (a notoriously
tricky group), does anyone wish to proffer an opinion
on her description below?
Cheers
AS
> Most interesting birds - a Streaked Shearwater and a
> strange gull (or
> gulls) both seen between the Wessels and Croker
> Island. The gull had a
> black head without obvious white marks around the
> eye, mid-grey wings and
> back, dark wingtips, pale trailing edge and white
> rump and tail. There
> was no no other white on the upper wing. Bill dark
> without obvious red
> and more obvious than Silver Gull's. There may
> have been two as the lad
> on the helm reported a black-headed gull flying from
> port bow to stern
> seconds before I saw one flying from starboard to
> port stern. I think
> Laughing Gull but I'd be interested in other
> opinions.
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