Thursday, January 21, 2021

GLAUCOUS continues at Red Hook

Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus) (1)
- Reported Jan 21, 2021 11:42 by Richard Fleming
- Erie Basin Park, IKEA (Brooklyn), Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=40.6711639,-74.0129375&ll=40.6711639,-74.0129375
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S79644697
- Media: 2 Photos
- Comments: "Continuing bird reported yesterday by Roberta Manian. Either missed or overlooked when I walked east through the park; on my return through about half an hour later found standing in front of the large guano-stained bollard at the far end of the westernmost derelict pier (this is the pier which invariably has the largest collection of sitting gulls). The bird promptly sat or lay down on its belly and was more or less obscured by other standing gulls, but it is clearly larger than Herring and smaller than Greater Black-backed, both of which were present (Herring is visible beyond, in one of these poor photos). Bill bicolored, wingtips white."