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Need help to ID some New York gulls (1 Viewer)
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Cristian Mihai
Cristian Mihai
Both look good for Great Black-backed Gull. The first one is a subadult bird.
Thank you, i asked to ID is bcos i saw the second one got yellow legs..Look like lesser..
lou salomon
the birdonist
surprize: some GBBG have yellowish legs. 
Tiraya
San Diego CA
surprize: some GBBG have yellowish legs.
Really? That makes two hard species even harder. Darn.
Cristian Mihai
Cristian Mihai
Maybe. But note that Lou wrote yellowish, not yellow. :t:
chris butterworth
aka The Person Named Above
....... and Great Black-backs are heavy, almost goose sized, bruisers unlike the far more elegant, long winged Lesser, which has distinctly dark grey upperparts ( there's as much chance of the black backed nominate taxon getting to the New World than graellsii as it has to the UK, so it can almost be excluded ).
