Sea bird behavior and what it tells us

[DarkSkies]

I mentioned the difference in color on Bonaparte's gulls. Here are a few pics. Note that in our area we are more likely to see just the black dot on the head, which may help you to distinguish them from other gulls.




This pic represents what you are more likely to see, right now.




Some videos of these birds feeding, etc........

This is of Bonaparte's gulls on the water. You can see most of them have molted and are most easily identified by the black spot behind the eyes.






Loon looking for food......to me, they are one of our most interesting looking Winter birds....

[seamonkey]

Good read ds thanks for sharing.

[albiealert]

Awesome read thank you for posting that ds. You are right about the Sound. We may not have as much diversity as you do but have cormorants up the ying yang. They are all over.

[nitestrikes]

^^^^^ In china it's worse. They use them to fish and some of the chinese rivers are overfished because of it.