Breeding adult © Ian Davies eBird S30885128 Macaulay Library ML 31718891
Nonbreeding adult © Ian Davies
First year © Ian Davies
First year © Pam Rasmussen
Second year © Blake Matheson
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Second year © Markus Deutsch
Third year © Nick Hajdukovich
Third year © Ian Davies

skifermåke Larus schistisagus

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Identifikasjon

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Thickset, short-winged, pot-bellied gull. Adult has dark gray back and wings, intense pink legs, and an especially large white “crescent” (white tertial edges) near the wingtips when perched. Breeding adult white-headed; nonbreeding birds have variably heavy brown streaking on the head and upper breast. Takes four years for immatures to progress from mostly brown to fully white and gray adult plumage; intermediate plumages are often mottled and messy. Often looks rather frosty by the first winter; starts to develop a gray back and whitish eye in its second year. Primarily an Asian species, found in coastal regions from Japan and South Korea to Russia. Regularly occurs in western Alaska, but very rare elsewhere in North America.

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