Luke's Birding Pages

Glaucous Gull, Larus hyperboreus  X ??

January 1, 2003

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California

Photographs © Luke W. Cole

Note extensive black along the cutting edge back behind the nostril.

Mark Eaton reported that by late March the black faded basally to make the pattern a more crisp cut-off like a traditional Glaucous Gull.

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