Subject: RE-Re: Unknown gull
Date: Dec 9 13:57:18 1994
From: Jerry Tangren - Jerry_Tangren at tfrec.ncw.net
tweeters at u.washington.edu
>Michael,
>
>I'll take a stab at it. It's not a Glaucous-winged as it's too small &
>slender... If it's a Ring-billed sub-adult the primaries must be
>leucistic or bleached out indicating some aberrancy in molt. How about a
>Kumlien's (Iceland) Gull, subadult, just to muddy the waters.
>
>Gene Hunn (hunn at u.washington.edu)
To help clear the waters, then why not the case of a subadult Thayer's
Gull?
--JT