[mou] Lesser Black-backed Gull, Stearns Co.

[Chu, Philip]

Today, 20 October, from about 2:30 to 5:30 (when I left), there was a Lesser Black-backed Gull at Pearl Lake in Maine Prairie Twp., Stearns Co.  The bird appeared adultlike, except for outer primaries that had neither white mirrors nor white apices - a combination that suggests a bird molting into 4th basic plumage.
 
Phil Chu
Department of Biology
St. John's University
Collegeville, MN 56321