"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.
"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.