UNUSUAL AND UNIDENTIFIED GULLS - GBBG-like:
Included here are any birds that may possibly be explained by a GBBGxAMHE hybrid:
- Jan 14, 2007 - Another first cycle LBBG/YLGU-type (hybrid?) from Houston;
- Jan 14, 2007 - Another first cycle LBBG/YLGU-type (hybrid?) from Houston;
- Jan 08, 2007 - Could this similar bird also possibly be some kind of GBBG hybrid from Houston?;
- Jan 04, 2007 - Could this possibly be some kind of GBBG hybrid from Houston?;
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Jan 04, 2007 -A first cycle LBBG/Kelp/GBBGxLBBG? from Houston;
updated Jan 08;
- April 29 , 2006 - A HERG-like first-cycle gull from Houston in FEBRUARY that might have a touch of something else in it;
- April 02 , 2006 - Another first-cycle gull from Corpus Christi - it's very large and pale; a weird GBBG or hybrid thereof?;
- April 02 , 2006 - A first-cycle gull from Houston - it's very large and darkish; a GBBG hybrid of some sort?;
- Mar 18 , 2006 - A first cycle LBBG? KEGU? hybrid? from Houston;
- Feb 24, 2006 - A pale first cycle Great Black-backed Gull from Houston;
- Feb 02, 2006 - A hefty, first cycle suggesting Kelp Gull from Houston;
- Jan 28, 2006 - Heres another second cycle gull: weird LBBG? Atlantic YGLU? Hybrid? from Galveston...;
- Dec 16, 2005 - a baffling young "dark-mantled" large gull from Houston;
- Mar 19, 2005
- a possible first-summer(?) Kelp
or Kelp x Herring hybrid from Corpus Christi;
- Dec 18, 2004
- a "dark-winged" first-winter
gull from Corpus Christi - what the heck is it?;
- Mar 15, 2003 - added a
darkish-backed adult gull by John Puschock on which he seeks
feedback about its identity.
- January 23, 2001 - He's back
- the darker-mantled gull from Texas
has returned to the Corpus landfill; photos
and discussion for January 2001 (with link to a possible
sighting from even earlier, plus a revealing
page of specimens from the BMNH).
- early December, 2000: The Easton, Pa mystery gull.
- July 19, 2000: in the dark-mantled
Corpus gull page there is a new link to some interesting
direct comparisons with Middle Eastern gulls.
- April 25, 2000: I just received
some revealing pics from Willie Sekula of the
remarkable gull from Brownsville; plus I've added a link
to a new set of images of a 1B GBBG in early April, for comparison;
please take another look - thanks.
- April 14, 2000: I just received
photos from Willie Sekula of a remarkable
gull from Brownsville - please check it out and provide some
input - thanks.
- March 8, 2000: a most intriguing
darker-mantled gull from Texas in
February, with lots of helpful feedback from those with experience
of the Eurasian forms.
- a presumed Kelp x smithsonianus?
hybrid from south Texas (March 16, 1999)
- a 2CY bird from Texas; marinus? - it has atlantis-like features.
- odd-looking imm. LBBG-type(?) and GBBG(?)
from Tamaulipas, Mexico in Nov 1998.
