Dark Gull ID Lancaster Co Nebraska (1 Viewer)

Tero

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• Mar 30, 2020

• #1

I found two herring gulls there, but this one seemed to be more uniformly darker. The pictures are within about 1 minute, and I believe are the same bird, though there was another gull there. The first two are more likely the same, the third photo I am not totally sure was the same bird.

I drove around the lake and photographed this Herring Gull a half hour later, at the same South end of the lake
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Tero

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• Mar 30, 2020

• #2

here are lightened versions of two photos

 

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Tero

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• Mar 30, 2020

• #3

It's not that complicated:
Herring Gull or Iceland Gull/Thayr's?

 

lou salomon

the birdonist

• Mar 31, 2020

• #4

exactly between these two. but not easy to tell without better pics of the upperparts. looks like herring to me though, on structure of bill.

 

Jeff Hopkins

Just another...observer

• Mar 31, 2020

• #5

Herring for me.

 

Tero

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• Mar 31, 2020

• #6

OK then. Whew!

 

jogresh

Bimble and patch

• Mar 31, 2020

• #7

When were the pics taken Tero?..

 

Tero

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• Mar 31, 2020

• #8

Sunday. There was a photographed Iceland/Thayers two days before.