Fwd: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert **MEW GULL & Black Headed Gull

Note mega rare Mew Gull ( European) and Black headed Gull at Brooklyn Army Terminal pier 4, seen in north cove base

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Date: Thu, Jan 28, 2021, 2:39 PM
Subject: [eBird Alert] Kings County Rare Bird Alert <hourly>
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*** Species Summary:

- Black-headed Gull (1 report)
- Mew Gull (European) (1 report)
- Baltimore Oriole (1 report)

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Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) (1)
- Reported Jan 28, 2021 10:35 by Shane Blodgett
- Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.646519,-74.026074&ll=40.646519,-74.026074
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S80031134
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "immature-has been one reported here recently as well as further south"

Mew Gull (European) (Larus canus canus) (1)
- Reported Jan 28, 2021 10:35 by Shane Blodgett
- Brooklyn Army Terminal Pier 4, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.646519,-74.026074&ll=40.646519,-74.026074
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S80031134
- Media: 6 Photos
- Comments: "feeding in cove with up to 10-15 RBGU-first picked out because of strong black terminal tail band that contrasted with bright white rump-smallish bill with blue-green base and black tip- lower mandible more extensively black than upper-examination of photos reveals more rounded brownish internal markings on lesser and median coverts distinguishing from the sharper pointed marks ("quill tip pen") on RBGU -dark secondaries contrasted with prominent silvery/gray greater covert panel"

Baltimore Oriole (Icterus galbula) (1)
- Reported Jan 28, 2021 13:25 by Ryan Mandelbaum
- my house, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6643584,-73.9849559&ll=40.6643584,-73.9849559
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S80028535
- Comments: "i hope it doesn't mind the new seeded jelly"

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