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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CAU" data-source="post: 1294980" data-attributes="member: 55324">Ok! I also admit that it was not my most clever posting to write that the bird is a straightforward petrel, the more I look at the images the less certain I become! I agree with Jan that especially for a Wilson's Storm Petrel the arm looks too long. However, in the first photo the bill looks as long as the forehead is high, and it looks also very thin,which gives it a very petrel-like appearance.Edit: After looking more on the photos, I can conclude that I was very probably utterly wrong. The secondaries seem to have white edges, which fits Laughing Gull, and the relative lengths of the outermost primaries also fit a gull (all ten primaries seem to be visible in the first photo). In the second photo the flanks and throat look paler than the rest of the bird. Sorry!</blockquote>