Juvenile

I did not recognize this beautiful seabird we encountered at the Bodega Marine Reserve. It could be a juvenile lesser black-backed gull or a juvenile Herring gull, but not a streaked shearwater as I originally thought -- they don't have black beaks.

 

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Identified as a juvenile California gull by VancouverBirder.

 

 

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