This adult-basic Lesser Black-backed Gull
(Larus fuscus ) was photographed by Martin Reid
at Corpus Christi Landfill, Tarrant County, Texas, on March 04,
2004; as is normal for birds seen in Texas, the mantle was clearly
a bit darker than on Laughing Gull:
This first-winter presumed Lesser Black-backed
Gull (Larus fuscus ) was photographed by Martin
Reid at Corpus Christi Landfill, Tarrant County, Texas, on March
04, 2004; it is quite unusual in that the mantle/scaps are all
2nd-generation feathers (yet typically dark), and the tail has
no white at the base plus the uppertail coverts are heavily-marked
with dark bars. The primaries and primary coverts have that "oily"
look typical of LBBG types :
