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Mark S. Szantyr
101. by Mark S. Szantyr on September 20, 2011 at 04:02 am

This gull has a very distinctive shape, with its long bill and very long primaries. When I first saw the Rhode Island bird, I first picked it out as a silhouette sitting on the water by this shape. It can be similar to Lesser Black-backed Gull, in fact the RI bird was first thought to be a strange Lesser, but the bill structure is quite different.

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Citation: Personal Experience. I observe this regularly, highly confident.

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