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by Dennis Shirley
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General Information |
Gull Identification |
Immature Gulls |
Key to Adult Gulls |
Species List | |
Little Gull (similar
species)
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Non-breeding Adult - blackish eye crescents, ear spot and
gray cap;
bill is small and black, legs are red
Photo by Jack Binch
ŠJack Binch
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Adult little Gull - has wings
that are pale gray above
and black beneath with a white trailing border.
Photo
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Jack Binch
ŠJack Binch
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Little Gull
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Similar Species
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Bonaparte's Gull
- has a larger bill, a white wedge on the outer primaries,
white underwings, black wing tips and white eye crescents.
Adult Bonaparte's has neat black primary tips; Immature
lacks blackish cap and has a black trailing edge on the
wing, narrowly tipped with white. |
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Black-headed Gull (no picture) - has dusky inner primaries on
underwing; immature has mostly white outer primaries mostly above,
wings with blackish trailing edge, and a pale bill with
a black tip. |
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Non-breeding Little Gull
(on left) - is obviously much smaller than a Bonaparte's,
has a relatively
smaller bill,
has black rather than white eye crescents, and has a small
black cap on its head.
Photo
by Jack Binch
ŠJack Binch
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Bonaparte's Gulls
- have pointed
wings that are white underneath
and a black trailing edge of the wings unlike Little Gulls.
Photo
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Kendall Brown
ŠKendall W. Brown
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