Sanibel Island, Florida - Gull, Gull, Gull, Gull, Tern (1 Viewer)

Fandango739

GeoBird

• Jan 3, 2013

• #1

1. Big gull! Immature Herring? This lone bird out-sized every other gull around him. I've seen gulls his size before, but they are usually migratory. (There was one that for some reason stayed through the year once at Ft. Myers Beach...but that was a strange event. The following Spring, he was gone.)

2. Another immature...someone. Not nearly as big as #1, but seemed larger than the gulls I believe to Laughing Gulls.

3. Adult Ring-billed...or....

4. Laughing Gull...or....

5. This fellow seemed to never leave his perch the bulk of the day, staying away from the people-crowded beach.

Many thanks!

 

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Steve Arlow

Well-known member

• Jan 3, 2013

• #2

1. 1st winter Herring Gull
2. Dark 1st winter gull which looks like Lesser Black-backed Gull
3. adult Ring-billed Gull
4. Laughing Gull
5. Forsters Tern

 

Brian2

Well-known member

• Jan 3, 2013

• #3

I'd have to agree with Steve.

Good memories of Sanibel Island too...a cracking part of the world
maybe I'll be lucky enough to return some time.

 

lou salomon

the birdonist

• Jan 3, 2013

• #4

could no. two be an atlantic gull (larus michahellis atlanticus) ?
it seems to have replaced quite a few coverts...
agree on the other IDs.

 

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smiths

Well-known member

• Jan 4, 2013

• #5

I do not see any replaced wing coverts in #2?

 

nickderry

C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.

• Jan 4, 2013

• #6

smiths said:

I do not see any replaced wing coverts in #2?

Click to expand...

Scapulars??

 

lou salomon

the birdonist

• Jan 4, 2013

• #7

naaaa, i was tricked on a mobile screen by the different coloured coverts. now it's evident they are all juvenile B
got to be a LBBG then!

 

nickderry

C'est pas ma faute, je suis anglais.

• Jan 4, 2013

• #8

please tell me that it has at least ONE juvenile scapular left! or I'll just have to leave gulls alone and stick to easier things such as woodpeckers!

 

lou salomon

the birdonist

• Jan 5, 2013

• #9

nick, i was referring to the (lesser and median) coverts, which i mistook as 2nd gen.;
however, there might be at least one rear lower scap which is broken at the edge and still juvenile