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Thayer's and Kumlien's Gulls in Toronto
On 4 January 2014, Willie D'Anna, Betsy Potter, Ron Pittaway and I visited Bluffers Park on
Lake Ontario in east Toronto to study the Thayer's and Kumlien's
Gulls. There were about 12 of these Arctic gulls, mostly Kumlien's.
We noted various combinations of wingtip pigmentation from darkest
in Thayer's Gull through to pale grey in Kumlien's with highly
variable eye colour and winter head streaking. Bluffers Park is at
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Adult Thayer's Gull in
winter plumage at Bluffers Park on Lake Ontario in Toronto on 4
January 2014. |
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Kumlien's Gull with
dark primaries, or could it be a Thayer's Gull? Bluffers Park on 4
January 2013 |
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Kumlien's with dark
primaries? Bluffers Park on 4 January 2014 |
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Kumlien's Gull at
Bluffers Park in Toronto on 4 January 2014 |
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Kumlien's Gull at
Bluffers Park in Toronto on 4 January 2014 |
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Kumlien's Gull at
Bluffers Park in Toronto on 4 January 2014 |
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Third winter Kumlien's
Gull at Bluffers Park on 4 January 2014 |
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Second winter
Kumlien's Gull at Bluffers Park in Toronto on 4 January 2014. |
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Juvenile Kumlien's
Gull at Ashbridges Bay in Toronto on 4 January 2014 |
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Herring Gull (left)
and 4 Kumlien's Gulls (centre) at Bluffers Park in Toronto on 4
January 2014 |
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Toronto Gulls in 2013-2014 Winter Season |
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Kumlien's Gulls at Bluffers Park on 18 December 2013 |
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Arctic Gulls in Toronto on 28 December 2013 |
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Kumlien's Gulls at
Bluffers Park on 2 March 2014 |
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