UNIDENTIFIED GULLS - SBGU-like:
NOTE: Although I discuss each gull's possible identity using language ranging from tentative to somewhat confident, I regard all identities to be SPECULATIVE unless there is wide (but not necessarily universal - these are gulls, after all!) external support from the gulling community.
- January 25, 2017 - a first-cycle Slaty-backed Gull candidate from Corpus Christi in 2007;
- Feb 22 , 2015 - a palish first-cycle Slaty-backed Gull from Brownsville;
- February 07 , 2013 - A candidate first cycle Slaty-backed Gull from Brownsville;
- February 07 , 2013 - Two first-cycle SBGU-like gulls from Houston area in Spring 2007;
- March 14 , 2012 - A strong candidate for first cycle Slaty-backed Gull from Corpus Christi;
- February 04 , 2011 - A first cycle Slaty-backed Gull-type from Corpus Christi;
- April 11, 2007 - A first cycle Slaty-backed Gull-type from Houston;
- Feb 21 , 2007 - Another first cycle Slaty-backed Gull-type from Houston - perhaps the best yet candidate?;
- Dec 23 , 2006 - A first cycle Slaty-backed Gull-type from Houston;
- April 02 , 2006 - A third-cycle(?) Slaty-backed Gull from Houston - shame it buggered-off so quickly...;
- Mar 18 , 2006 - A different pale, first cycle Slaty-backed Gull-type from Houston;
- Mar 18 , 2006 - Another pale, first cycle Slaty-backed Gull-type from Houston;
- Feb 24, 2006 - A big second cycle Slaty-backed Gull from Houston;
- Feb 24, 2006 - A different first cycle Slaty-backed Gull-type from Houston;
- Feb 02, 2006 - A pale, first cycle Slaty-backed Gull-type from Houston;
- Jan 02, 2006 - A first-cycle gull with all the features of Slaty-backed Gull from Houston;
- Dec 16, 2005 - a baffling young "dark-mantled" large gull from Houston;
- Nov 18, 2005 - another first-cycle milky-brown Thayer's-type gull that might fit SBGU rather better: - from Quebec;
- Nov 18, 2005 - a first-cycle milky-brown Thayer's-type gull that fits SBGU rather better:
- Apr 20, 2005
- pics of a first-basic gull that
might be a SBGU - check out that tail.... from Corpus Christi;
- Mar 20, 2005
- I've updated the first-basic
gull with the characteristics of Slaty-backed Gull from Corpus
Christi with comments from the Ujiharas;
- Feb 17, 2005
- a first-basic gull with the
characteristics of Slaty-backed Gull from Corpus Christi;
- Jan 07, 2005
- a chunky juvenile Thayer's-type
from Corpus Christi - but does it look a bit odd?;
- Dec 18, 2004
- a first-basic gull showing many
of the characteristics of Slaty-backed Gull from Corpus Christi;
- Apr 14, 2004 - added pics of
another mysterious first-winter "whitish-winged" large gull from Fulton, Texas on April 04;
Nov 23, 2002 - added a possible
Slaty-backed Gull from Fort Worth; input most welcome!
- June 22, 2000: I've added more
pics of the first Texas SBGU, showing
it near Laughing Gulls.
- April 08, 2000: added some links to similar birds from Siberia
for the Slaty-backed Gull?.
- April 06, 2000: A visit to the
upper Texas coast yielded a crop of unusual gulls: is this a
first-alternate Slaty-backed Gull?;