<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thank you Steve and Ian for not only graciously letting us know the gull couldn't be correctly identified as a Glaucous Gull, but also giving us some explanation why. I'd looked at the image of the gull and thought it didn't look right, but shook my head and accepted the identification and figured I just had to learn more to have a chance to identify most gulls.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I remain mostly ignorant about gull identification, but I have one less bit of incorrect information, and have one more helpful description to guide me with gulls.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Sincerely,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Kevin Lucas</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Yakima County, Washington</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font size="6"><span style="color:rgb(95,99,104);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif">Qui tacet consentire</span><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif"> videtur</span></font></b></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 9:29 PM Steve Hampton <<a href="mailto:stevechampton@gmail.com">stevechampton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Let me add to this. The bird appears to be a large leucistic gull with a pale eye. Its mantle is not a typical Glaucous blue-gray, however pale. It has some tan tones of other creamy white aberrant plumages. Its body proportions, head shape, and bill shape (large and blob-ended with strong gonydeal angle in some photos) are similar to the adjacent Olympic Gulls. The one interesting thing is the pale eye, which is similar to the palest Western Gull eyes. My guess is that it's a leucistic Olympic Gull, possibly from the Western end of the spectrum. Another option is that the eye color is somehow affected by whatever is going on with the plumage. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Some good pics of this interesting gull are here: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S128455800" target="_blank">https://ebird.org/checklist/S128455800</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><a href="https://ebird.org/checklist/S128408545" target="_blank">https://ebird.org/checklist/S128408545</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 9:02 PM Ian Paulsen <<a href="mailto:birdbooker@zipcon.net" target="_blank">birdbooker@zipcon.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">HI ALL:<br>
I heard back today from gull expert Amar Ayyash (who's currently writing <br>
a book on the gulls of North America) that the above gull ISN'T a Glaucous <br>
and CAN'T even be identified to species or hybrid type! Sorry folks!<br>
<br>
sincerely<br>
Ian Paulsen<br>
Bainbridge Island, WA, USA<br>
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