Subject: ICELAND GULL CORRECTION
Date: Jan 26 09:47:44 2000
From: Andy Stepniewski - steppie at wolfenet.com


Tweeters,

In reviewing my post on Iceland Gull yesterday, I stated: "in the arctic,
there is a variation in pigmentation from east to west in the Iceland Gull
(Larus glaucoides glaucoides), a small 4-year gull. It is palest in
northern Europe (the nominate subspecies glaucoides), where all plumage
sequences resemble that of a 2/3rd-sized Glaucous Gull. Greenland and
southern Baffin Island birds have more pigmentation (especially in the
primaries) and are known as
Kumlien's Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides kumlieni). West and north from
southern Baffin Island in the Canadian arctic, pigmentation increases (from
gray to black in the primaries)."

The above should be corrected to state: Iceland Gull does not breed in
Iceland! Greenland birds are palest Greenland (the nominate subspecies
glaucoides), where all plumage sequences resemble that of a 2/3rd-sized
Glaucous Gull. Southern Baffin Island birds have more pigmentation
(especially in the primaries) and are known as Kumlien's Iceland Gull
(Larus glaucoides kumlieni).

Andy Stepniewski
Wapato WA
steppie at wolfenet.com