At Brooklyn bridge park this late afternoon, a floating black headed Gull was seen off Pier 1 wading towards Pier 2 among a ring billed gull flock.
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) (1)
- Reported Jan 21, 2026 16:56 by Doug Gochfeld
- Brooklyn Bridge Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S2
- Comments: "Adult floating on water with hundreds of RBGU near P1 pilings. Apparently my first here in several years, and the species has been surprisingly scarce at this location since 2021. Mediocre photos."
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- Reported Jan 21, 2026 16:56 by Doug Gochfeld
- Brooklyn Bridge Park, Kings, New York
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF
- Checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S2
- Comments: "Adult floating on water with hundreds of RBGU near P1 pilings. Apparently my first here in several years, and the species has been surprisingly scarce at this location since 2021. Mediocre photos."
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"It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it."
--John Burroughs, conservationist and author
