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glaucous gull?; Connecticut,USA; May (1 Viewer)

raulqc

raulqc

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Please help id, I believe is an immature glaucous gull.

Regards,
Raul
 

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It's a very sun-bleached immature American Herring Gull.

Immature Glaucous has much paler wingtips (similar colour to the rest of the wing, to white), and also the basal 2/3 of the bill is pink, black only at the tip.
 
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