Subject: Re: Glaucous Gull or Hybrid????
Date: Jan 17 22:12:15 1998
From: "Ruth Sullivan" - GODWIT at worldnet.att.net


Hello Scott,
Since i study Gulls now, we had two of this Glaucous Hybrid at the
Gog-Le-Hi-Te earlier, when the Slaty-backed Gull arrived. Since i study my
Gulls now, i took P[hotos of this Birds, there are Glaucous Hybrid,
identified by an Expert, nothing other to make off.
Ruth
GODWIT at worldnet.att..net

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> From: Michael Price <mprice at mindlink.bc.ca>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: Re: Glaucous Gull or Hybrid????
> Date: Saturday, January 17, 1998 9:29 PM
>
> Hi Tweets,
>
> Scott Downes writes:
>
> >Two places today I had the exact
> >same type of gull and not sure what to make of it.
> (snip description of poss Glaucous Gull GLGU (Larus hyperboreus) or
hybrid
> with Glaucous-winged Gull GWGU L. glaucescens)
>
> Scott, funny you should mention. Yesterday, there were two birds in the
> flocks in South Delta which fit your description perfectly.
>
> While I can't comment on the birds you saw, initially we thought the same

> hybrid possibility, or even an oddly plumaged First-Basic GLGU, but after

> chewing on it for a while with Rick R and Brian B, finally realised we
were
> looking at GWGU's in Basic 3 beginning or in their molt into Alt 3. It's
the
> combination of cleanly bi-colored bill, pale, worn wing plumage, and
white
> head that suggests GLGU or hybrid.
>
> As these gulls move from Basic into obvious pre-Alternate molt about now,

> some of them, particularly second- and third-year birds, are gonna look
> pretty weird.
>
> Michael Price A brave world, Sir,
> Vancouver BC Canada full of religion, knavery and change;
> mprice at mindlink.net we shall shortly see better days.
> Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
>