birding-aus

Laughing Gull, Lord Howe

To:
Subject: Laughing Gull, Lord Howe
From: Katrina Knight <>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:25:06 -0500
At 05:11 AM 01/18/2010 Tom Tarrant wrote:
Are we certain that this is a Laughing Gull? I'm no expert but it looks very dark and deeper-billed to others that I've seen.
Would welcome the views of others more knowledgeable.....

It looks like a first-winter Laughing Gull to me, and I have plenty of experience with them. (I can see them by the thousands if I drive about an hour and a half east from home.) Laughing Gulls do have relatively big bills and the young ones are quite dark. If the others you've seen have been older, that could explain why this one looks darker.

--
Katrina Knight

Reading, PA, USA

===============================
www.birding-aus.org
birding-aus.blogspot.com

To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line)
to: 
===============================

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Admin

The University of NSW School of Computer and Engineering takes no responsibility for the contents of this archive. It is purely a compilation of material sent by many people to the birding-aus mailing list. It has not been checked for accuracy nor its content verified in any way. If you wish to get material removed from the archive or have other queries about the archive e-mail Andrew Taylor at this address: andrewt@cse.unsw.EDU.AU