[Tweeters] Albino SBGU or ??
Steve Hampton
stevechampton at gmail.com
Mon Mar 18 21:27:08 PDT 2024
Definitely a Short-billed Gull based on the bill size, shape, and color.
They can bleach pretty white by summer - and then they're tattered - see
the July 14 pic here:
https://thecottonwoodpost.net/2023/10/12/gull-identification-in-puget-sound/
- but this bird may be leucistic. It's very pretty!
good birding,
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 9:03 PM Eric Ellingson <esellingson at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On the way back from a Sunday outing aboard Seabird from Birch Bay Marina
> to Alden Bank, a hike around Matia, and then back toward Birch Bay we ran
> across this gull that really stood out as being 'different'. Aboard was an
> out-of-state eBird god (reviewer) Holly, who also recognized it as
> something unusual. A small gull, RBGU size but with no gray coloration in
> its feathers, blotchy pink/red coloration on its legs, a light eye, and a
> bill with a pale white base and orange/red at the tip. Your thoughts?
>
> See the photo here: https://flic.kr/p/2pEcVs3
>
>
> Eric Ellingson
>
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Steve Hampton
Port Townsend, WA (qatáy)
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