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Larus smithsonianus
This is a juvenile herring gull that was hanging around a truck stop parking lot.
Heh. I was going to add the (not so great)pics of the adults but the app won't let me add pics to the existing one or even add a new spotting now. I did look at the wiki on herring gull and that's what the adults look like.
Atul suggested it to me, it looks like a juvenile like the one in my spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/695...
Here's a wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_He...
You're right, this is a juvenile! Hard to ID them accurately when they're juveniles if you don't have any point of reference for size and stuff! Could be a herring gull or greater black backed gull... got any pics of the adults that were around? :) I love how it looks like he's posing for you haha!
Spotted on Aug 5, 2011
Submitted on Aug 5, 2011
