Gull - missing white eye crescents (1 Viewer)

[NJ Birders]

I needed to upload this since this one gull wasn't quite like the others. An oddly behaving gull in a flock of laughing gulls, this one missing it's white eye crescents.

any comments are of course appreciated.

 

[NJ Birders]

this was USA, NJ, Forsythe NWR (salt marsh)

this was USA, NJ, Forsythe NWR (salt marsh)

 

[stonechat1]

Though a Laughing Gull.

 

[NJ Birders]

thank you, I couldn't find another fit

 

[Nutcracker]

Maybe not fully adult yet, perhaps 2nd summer?

 

[chaoticreason]

It looks like it may be a Black-headed Gull.

 

[Nutcracker]

It looks like it may be a Black-headed Gull.

Sorry, nope - wrong wing and bill pattern, both typical Laughing Gull.