Alvaro,

By "Iceland Gull" I presume "Kumlien's" is meant to be included, and is
certainly the most likely form of "Iceland Gull" to show up here. My
Ediz Hook sighting was of Kumlien's.

Gene Hunn.

On Mon, 9 Jan 1995, Alvaro Patricio Jaramillo wrote:

> >
> > John,
> >
> > There have been endless debates about the identities of previous Iceland
> > Gulls, so if anyone can get really good photographs of this bird it would
> > be a boon to us all. There are still some who doubt that the "species"
> > even exists.
> >
> > Gene Hunn.
> >
>
> Last year there was an Iceland Gull reported from Vancouver, which was
> photographed. It is a mid-sized gull with white wingtips but it is not
> an Iceland. Actually, I have no idea what it is, my guesses range from
> albino California to odd Glaucous-wing! I imagine that most western Iceland
> Gulls are actually albinos of some type. Just from range and probabilities,
> ""Kumlien's"" gull should be much more common than Iceland here in Tweeterland.
> So please, try and get a photo! The status of Iceland gull in the west is
> still a mystery.
> I put double quotation marks on Kumlien's Gull, because I really don't believe
> it exists, not as anything that you could actually define anyway.
>
> Al Jaramillo
> jaramill at sfu.ca
> Vancouver, B.C.
>
>