[wisb] Re: ALERT: SABINE'S GULL - Cleveland
- From: "Steve Thiessen" <stevethiessen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jmotquin@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Wisconsin Birding Network" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:11:16 -0600
Great Find! The only ebird report lately was one in the Buffalo area on
1-27. These are outstanding finds. Nothing else in N.A., on ebird.I hope
that you got enough to document it. The low light can really affect color
tones, as you said. The outer primaries ,unless faded, should be black. I
had to look up scalene. If the edges of the white triangle were sharp, it
should leave out kittiwake and Ross's. Not much else to choose from.
Again, great find, Steve Thiessen Stoughton Dane co.---- Original
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From: <jmotquin@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Wisconsin Birding Network" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 1:25 PM
Subject: [wisb] ALERT: SABINE'S GULL - Cleveland
>
> On Thursday night, I birded the Lake Michigan shoreline from Kohler Andre
> State Park to Cleveland as part of and on my way home from the Wisconsin
> Wetlands Association Conference. I found all the usual suspects including
> black scoter, white-winged scoter, greater and lesser black-backed gulls,
> common loon and red-throated loons, normal Lake Michigan duck species. As
> I was about to call it a night, I noticed an odd looking gull in the
> distance. It had an pecular brownish hue that seemed almost reddish-brown
> in low light conditions. There were noticable scalene triangular white
> solid patterns in the secondary primaries which increased in width from
> the leading to the trailing edge of the wings. The remainder of the wing
> had the brownish hue. The tail was almost entirely white with the
> exception of a small brownish trapezoidal area at the base of the tail.
> The wings appeared longer and thinner than the ring-billed and herring
> gulls in the area. The flight pattern was mor
> e characteristic of a Boniparte Gull than other species common along the
> Lake Michigan shoreline. THe bird was observed in fading light conditions
> around 5:10PM. I watched the bird from the southern to northern horizon
> at Fischer Creek, a UWGB property. The bird flew in a southwest to
> north-northeasterly pattern into the middle of Lake Michigan where I lost
> the individual as a speck.
>
> Due to the unusuall plummage and coloration, I did not attempt to take a
> photograph. I used every moment to create a thorough mental image of the
> bird to ID it upon returning to the car. COnsulting my Sibley's and North
> American NatGeo guides indicates the only possible identification is an
> immature SABINE'S GULL.
>
> I viewed the individual at about 200 yards until it veered into the middle
> of the lake. I spotted the bird while looking south along the shoreline
> and watched it for several minutes. I have no doubts in this conclusion .
> Sorry for the late post as I've had other family and work obligations
> which prevented this post in a timely manner.
>
> If your in the Sheboygan - Manitowoc areas, keep an open eye. I hope
> someone else can re-find and photograph the bird.
>
> Jon Motquin
> Freedom, Outagamie Co.
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