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This gull was at East Beach, Galveston, Texas on November 16, 2005; clearly a LBBG-type, yet to my eye it looked rather odd:

Note below the extremely short tail:

Note the somewhat pale inner webs to the inner primaries, and the pale lesser secondary coverts on the leading part on the inner wing; LBBG has these coverts darker - similar to the primary coverts

The underwing coverts are "medium" rather than dark, being strongly mottled with pale marks. Also note the that retrices 6, 5, and 4 have solid white bases with no barring