Brandon, This bird is VERY similar to (if not the SAME as!) an odd gull observed in Saskatchewan in October of this year. I think the consensus was a melanistic Ring-billed gull with partial albinism (i.e., a Ring-billed gull with serious plumage issues!). Jesse Ellis started a thread on the ID-frontiers list about that bird on Oct 29, 2012.
Photos of that bird (of it's right side): http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?p=2576343 The ID-Frontiers discussion: http://listserv.ksu.edu/web?A1=ind1210e&L=birdwg01 VERY COOL find if it's the same bird! Well worth a write-up in the JCFO, especially if it sticks around for more photos that can help support a definitive ID. Best, Paul Hurtado On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Brandon K. Percival <bkperci...@yahoo.com>wrote: > I guess the smaller gull with a black bill with a yellow tip at Pueblo > Reservoir today, isn't a Sabine's Gull, though it is unknown what it might > be. If you were hoping to see a Sabine's Gull, I guess this bird isn't > one. Gulls are really annoying, just like swans and "winter" type wrens. > > Two of my photos of the "unknown funny gull" can be seen at > http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandonsbirdphotos/ Bill Maynard has better > photos that have also been looked at. > > If I have time tomorrow, I'll try look for this bird again, and hope for > some better photos, or perhaps a photo of it flying. Not sure this bird > will be figured out, unless it is seen again. > > > > Brandon Percival > Pueblo West, CO > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Colorado Birds" group. > To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Paul J. Hurtado Postdoctoral Fellow, The Ohio State University Mathematical Biosciences Institute, http://mbi.osu.edu/ Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, http://ael.osu.edu/ E-mail: hurtado...@mbi.osu.edu Webpage: http://people.mbi.ohio-state.edu/hurtado.10 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
