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Kumlien's Iceland Gulls
and a Coyote |
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Ashbridges Bay, Toronto, 15
February 2010 |
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Today at Ashbridges Bay the gulls on the
ice
suddenly went up. Thinking there might be an eagle overhead, I
looked up but quickly looked down because a Coyote was running on
the ice. It followed the shoreline of the waste treatment
plant, went around the corner and flushed all the gulls that
normally are out of sight at the back of the plant. |
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Suddenly the gulls
flushed... |
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...there was the Coyote. |
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Left: Adult Herring
Gull and on right smaller Kumlien's Iceland Gull. Ashbridges Bay, 15
February 2010. |
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An Iceland Gull had all white wingtips
but a narrow dark line on the outer web of P10. It had a yellow
iris. Its all white wingtips are similar to those of nominate
glaucoides. Ashbridges Bay 15
February 2010 |
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Left photo: stretched wing appears to
have all white wingtips. Right photo: same white wingtips but narrow dark
line on outer web of P10 |
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For more variation in Kumlien's
Iceland Gulls, see
http://www.jeaniron.ca/Gulls/2010/kumliensgulls.htm |
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