Hi All,
In the flickr link below is one of Nadir's better photos of this bird. I don't
have much experience with the mew/common gull complex, but to me this bird
appears to be a rather heavily mottled, pale-billed ring-billed gull. The bill
doesn't strike me as very fine, nor the head very
Today, on my usual lunch hour walk to the Central Park Reservoir I found what I
believe is a 1st cycle Mew/Common Gull. This individual is a Ring-billed sized
bird that is heavily marked all around the head. Notable were the dusky brown
markings concentrated around the eyes, the relatively fine
Today, on my usual lunch hour walk to the Central Park Reservoir I found what I
believe is a 1st cycle Mew/Common Gull. This individual is a Ring-billed sized
bird that is heavily marked all around the head. Notable were the dusky brown
markings concentrated around the eyes, the relatively fine
Hi All,
In the flickr link below is one of Nadir's better photos of this bird. I don't
have much experience with the mew/common gull complex, but to me this bird
appears to be a rather heavily mottled, pale-billed ring-billed gull. The bill
doesn't strike me as very fine, nor the head very
