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Nick Komar | all galleries >> Birds >> Large Gulls >> Gulls at Horseshoe Lake, 7 Dec 2014 > Mixed flock - see next image for labels
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07-Dec-2014 Loveland, Colorado

Mixed flock - see next image for labels

1. Putative Iceland (juv)
2. Thayer's (adult) (or maybe Iceland; Kumlien's Iceland can sometimes show this much dark gray on the wingtip)
3. California (center, lower left, and upper right)
4. American Herring (pink legs) - lower right and upper left
5. Ring-billed (center, facing left)
I believe the pale California Gull in the front center is the larger, paler-mantled "albertaensis" subspecies of California Gull.

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
1/500s f/7.1 at 300.0mm iso400 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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