Subject: Re: Juv Gulls
Date: Jul 25 12:41:37 1995
From: Christopher Hill - cehill at u.washington.edu




On Tue, 25 Jul 1995, Michael Price wrote:

> Just a note that both juvenile Bonaparte's & Ring-billed Gulls have started
> to show up in Vancouver BC this week. Juv California and Mew should be along
> any day, too.

I believe a few juvenile Californias were on the Washington outer coast
beaches at La Push 7/16. They were with a hundred or so adult Californias
on second beach, were the same size and build (long thin black bills,
e.g.) and were dark with conspicuous broad light edgings to the mantle
(back) feathers. I don't have a picture of juvenile Californias handy to
compare with what I saw - any comments? There were half a dozen adult
Heermans Gulls at Rialto Beach the same day.

Chris Hill
Seattle, WA
cehill at u.washington.edu