ID the Perp #8
06/22/2009
A few more for the series. And this one looks serious, does he not. Can anyone provide a positive ID?
EDIT: Adding another photo of a seagull at the same beach in Florida. Look carefully.
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pengovsky said,
June 22, 2009 @ 7:25 pm
Wooha! That’sone mean-looking mofo!
dr. filomena said,
June 22, 2009 @ 7:26 pm
errr… Morning Formation?
alcessa said,
June 22, 2009 @ 9:44 pm
A MOnochrome FOwl, ineed. Geez, where d’you get them?
A bird of prey? An albino?
alcessa said,
June 22, 2009 @ 9:48 pm
A White Hawk (Leucopternis albicollis)?
dr.filomena said,
June 22, 2009 @ 10:10 pm
I’m not entirely sure, but I believe it’s a young Laughing Gull. He sure did look convincingly non-pacifist 😀
more to come 😉
alcessa said,
June 22, 2009 @ 10:24 pm
HM.
dr.filomena said,
June 22, 2009 @ 10:36 pm
Hmm indeed. Should ask a bit… get an expert’s opinion.
Posted another photo of a bird at the same beach, hope you’ll enjoy it.
alcessa said,
June 23, 2009 @ 8:44 am
There are huge numbers of Laughing Gulls nesting at a place we regularly go to, in our function as hobby ornithologists (absolute beginners), and the bird above doesn’t look like one to me.
BUT: ever since I heard two experts (of the kind: there-I-was-at-this-unknown-lake-in-Israel-watching-the-bird-everyone-thought-extinct) discussing the possible species of a bird we all saw an noone could identify (because it was standing in the shadow and the color of its legs could not be determined) I know it is a hell of a job to identify birds correctly.
Plus, I really don’t like gulls. 🙂