In February 2002 (I think 2002), I went to Broome to see the Kelp Gull. Just before I left, we found a gull near the port with no windows in the wing and a longer more slender bill, I tried to turn it into a Slender-billed Gull, but then Ron Johnstone sent me his paper on Silver Gulls, and other references I looked at convinced me that it was still a Silver Gull. The New Caledonia race has no windows from memory, but whether that would make it to Broome ….
_________________________________________________________________ Frank O’Connor Birding WA http://birdingwa.iinet.net.au Phone : (08) 9386 5694 Email : foconnor@iinet.net.au
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