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Great Black-Backed Gull (Larus marinus)
Hudson River, near Glenmont, NY
26 December 2007
1/80 sec @ f/8.0; Pentax *ist DS; 300mm focal length
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Talitiainen (Great Tit), Parus major.
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Image: GrrlScientist, 24 November 2008 [larger view].
Now that I am on the plane, returning to the USA, I will share my revised list of birds seen in the Helsinki area of…
Talitiainen (Great Tit), Parus major.
Photographed in Hietaniemen hautausmaa (Hietaniemi cemetery), Helsinki, Finland.
Image: GrrlScientist, 24 November 2008 [larger view].
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It's got quite dark wings for a herring gull, or is that normal in North America?
It looks like a Great Black-backed Gull to me, with the dark back and upperwings.
I had the same thought as Rob. Herring Gulls never have a mantle that dark. I think that's a Great Black-backed Gull.
Mantle is much too dark for a Herring Gull.
Would you be willing to let me dowload the full-size of that? I really like the light-play on the bird's underside, as well as the rather defiant-looking pose (so very gull!)