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Rick Bowes | all galleries >> 2013 Various Galleries >> Photos Taken on Duxbury Beach during 2013 - a gallery for each month >> Shots taken on Duxbury Beach_Gurnet_Saquish August, 2013 > Great Black-backed Gull with yellow legs! - Duxbury Beach, MA - August 18, 2013
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18-AUG-2013

Great Black-backed Gull with yellow legs! - Duxbury Beach, MA - August 18, 2013

I originally concluded that the 4th bird from the left was a Lesser Black-backed Gull as evidenced by its yellow legs -quite bright in person but a bit more dull in this photo. The size and bill were troubling me, however, (too much like a GBBG - could it be a hybrid?) and so queried some more knowledgeable birders each of whom concluded that this was a Great Black-backed Gull with abnormal leg coloring. Their feeling was that in every other way it appeared to be a GBBG. So... A GBBG can have yellow legs! Who knew!

I subsequently looked for other examples on the web and found these two: http://www.flickr.com/photos/little-w/6140347793/ and http://www.talk.gull-research.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=149

For those interested additional photos of this bird are in a small gallery at http://www.pbase.com/rickbowes/2013_08_18_dbch_lbbg

Canon EOS 40D
1/500s f/11.0 at 350.0mm iso100 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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