[wisb] Re: Gull Identification help please from old photo

  • From: <tuttech@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, jerry937975@xxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 2:17:40 +0000

The primary underwings on a Thayers would look white or at least whitish.
Tom Uttech
Oz.Co.
---- jerry937975@xxxxxxx wrote: 
> 
> As I mentioned I'm scanning some old slides I've accumulated over the last 30 
> years or so and I came across a slide that I had labeled as Thayer's Gull.  I 
> don't know if I've even looked at that slide since the time I took it back in 
> the late 80's.  At the time, there had not been a sighting of California Gull 
> yet in the state, so I fear I may have been swayed by the theoretical 
> probability of Thayer's.  Unfortunately I do not have leg color or wing 
> color, just a sitting bird, but a decent photo of it.  Anyway, would 
> appreciate thoughts.  There is no doubt that the photo was taken in 
> Wisconsin, but I have to admit, I don't remember the location, but probably 
> South Shore Yacht Club.  Here's the photo:
> 
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/geraldd/4261403066/
> 
> Jerry DeBoer
> Central Racine County
> 
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