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"Olympic" gull

"Olympic" Gull (Glaucous-winged Gull × Western Gull), Larus glaucescens × Larus occidentalis.

 

Bright orange-yellow bill (WEGU), brown iris and gray-brown wingtips (GWGU), red-orange eye ring (hybrid of WEGU yellow and GWGU magenta or purple).

 

The tertials are deeply worn and the white "windows" at the tips of the primaries are nearly gone – summer molt begins in the next month.

 

Shore Acres State Park, Coos County, Oregon, June 12, 2011.

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Uploaded on September 6, 2013
Taken on June 12, 2011