UNIDENTIFIED GULLS - THGU-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 19 , 2013 - A very pale-winged second cycle Thayers'/Kumlien's Iceland Gull from Brownsville;
- January 19 , 2013 - A rather pale-winged first cycle Thayer's Gull from Brownsville;
- Feb 28 , 2008 - An adult Thayer's-type with too much black in the primaries? from Houston area ;
- Jan 04, 2007 -A first cycle Iceland or intergrade-type from Houston; updated Jan 08;
- July 14 , 2006 - A first-cycle gull from Galveston back in October '05- pale, checkered, and nameless...;
- April 29 , 2006 - A sub-adult gull from Houston that might have been a kumlieni...;
- April 29 , 2006 - A second-cycle gull from Houston that also might have been a kumlieni...;
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April 29 , 2006 - A second-cycle gull from Houston that suggests a small-billed female Glaucous-winged Gull (or close-to);
- April 29 , 2006 - A second-cycle gull from Houston that has lightish wings but does not seem to fit any pure taxon;
- April 02 , 2006 - A third-cycle white-winged gull from near Galveston - but I can't put a name to it...;
- April 02 , 2006 - An adult-basic Thayer's Gull from Houston;
- April 02 , 2006 - A 2nd-cycle Thayer's 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:
- Feb 23, 2005
- an adult-basic Thayer's Gull
that may be close to having some kumlieni in it at
Corpus Christi;
- Jan 07, 2005
- a pale petite juvenile Thayer's-type
from Corpus Christi - might it have some kumlieni in it?;
- Jan 07, 2005
- a chunky juvenile Thayer's-type
from Corpus Christi - but does it look a bit odd?;
- Jan 07, 2005
- a bright juvenile HERG-type
from Corpus Christi, with some very unusual features;
- Dec 01, 2004
- a different funky (palish-primaried)
juvenile Smith-type from Corpus Christi;
- Dec 01, 2004
- a funky (palish-primaried) juvenile
Smith-type from Corpus Christi;
- Mar 23, 2004 - added pics of
a mysterious first-winter "white-winged" large gull from Corpus Christi on March 20;
- Mar 06, 2004 - a bunch of rare
gulls from Corpus Christi on March 04;
three non-first-winter Thayer's Gulls;
- Feb 01, 2004 - added an adult-winter Kumlieni?/Thayeri?/what??
from the Netherlands;
- Jan 28, 2004 - added a first-winter
thayeri/kumlieni type from Galveston;
- Jan 25, 2003 - added a thayeri-like
first-winter, from Fort Worth;
Nov 30, 2002 - a possible Glaucous-winged
Gull hybrid from Fort Worth; input most needed!
- June 19, 2000: a thayeri-like HEGU(?)
from Nome, Alaska.
- here's
an intriguing "white-winged" gull from Texas way back in 1990 - feedback would be most
appreciated.
- an Iceland Gull-like oddity from
Tony Leukering - plus another!
- a medley of rare gulls seen February
28, 1999 in Fort Worth including a Thayer's type.