Thursday, August 1, 2024
JUVENILE EURASIAN CURLEW, MUSSELBURGH, EAST LOTHIAN, SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM, 7/17/2024 - NEW LIFE SPECIES
We can ID the large wader in the first two photos as a juvenile Eurasian Curlew as follows:
- Upperparts are brown with whitish streaking
- What we can see of the underparts is white with dark streaking
- Long, downcurved, dark bill with pinkish base of the lower mandible
- Dark eye with whitish eyering
- Indistinct whitish supercillium
The Eurasian Curlew is a new species to our ebird Photographic Life List.
FIRST SUMMER COMMON GULL, MUSSELBURGH, EAST LOTHIAN, SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM, 7/17/2024 - NEW LIFE SPECIES
Even though this photo was taken at a long distance and is not quite clear we can still ID this gull as a First Summer Common Gull by comparison to a photo of such a gull in Cornell Lab's Birds of the World:
- Light gray and white face with dark eye
- Bill is grayish with yellowish tinge and black tip
- Gray back
- Belly and breast are white and gray
- Primaries and tail are dark brown
The Common Gull is a new species to our ebird Photographic Life List.
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