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I D Required

Postby Will Parsons » Sat Oct 28, 2023 5:20 pm

Last night while photographing the sunset at Okarito I took a photo over the beach and noticed what I thought were 2 gulls over the beach. The bird on the right had a distinctive white band on the upper rump. The image is heavily cropped so image very poor quality as it was about the sunset not the bird. See picture.
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Re: I D Required

Postby David Riddell » Sun Nov 05, 2023 9:26 am

Looks like a second-year black-backed gull, transitioning from juvenile to adult plumage.
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Re: I D Required

Postby Will Parsons » Wed Nov 08, 2023 10:56 pm

Thanks David.
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