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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JANJ" data-source="post: 1294936" data-attributes="member: 20722">I agree with the non-peterel suggestion. Apart from what has been said about the wing shape, far to long arm for a - lets say - Wilson´s.Another character that would rule out a Wilson´s - or dare I say any other white-rumped storm petrel, is the lower back pattern. In Wilson´s the black lower part would end squarish or slightly pointed:<a href="http://www.pbase.com/gtepke/image/48913088" target="_blank">http://www.pbase.com/gtepke/image/48913088</a>not in a central dark wedge similar to this:<a href="http://www.pbase.com/image/89890720" target="_blank">http://www.pbase.com/image/89890720</a><a href="http://www.pbase.com/image/95505503" target="_blank">http://www.pbase.com/image/95505503</a>If it´s a Laughing Gull I´m not sure but it looks better as such then a Storm Petrel.JanJ</blockquote>