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Pacific Gull

Larus pacificus

Description:

Juvenile Pacific Gull. This one got caught up in a fisher's line (twice), so after carefully untangling the line from it's wing we tried to send it in a different direction!

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8 Comments

MrsPbio
MrsPbio 11 years ago

Good work helping the poor creature out! It would have definitely died a long agonizing death of starvation. Gulls are not the smartest of birds, are they?!

Michelle Parish
Michelle Parish 11 years ago

wow, oops!

Michelle Parish
Michelle Parish 11 years ago

he kept getting tangled in fishing line of a gentleman fishing from dock.

Michelle Parish
Michelle Parish 11 years ago

he kept getting tangled in fishing line of a gentleman fishing from dock.

Michelle Parish
Michelle Parish 11 years ago

he kept getting tangled in fishing line of a gentleman fishing from dock.

Michelle Parish
Michelle Parish 11 years ago

he kept getting tangled in fishing line of a gentleman fishing from dock.

Michelle Parish
Michelle Parish 11 years ago

he kept getting tangled in fishing line of a gentleman fishing from dock.

rewindtheyes
rewindtheyes 11 years ago

How were you able to pet him? Injured?

Michelle Parish
Spotted by
Michelle Parish

Florence, Oregon, USA

Spotted on Aug 18, 2012
Submitted on Aug 21, 2012

Spotted for Mission

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