West Coast Pacific Gull
S2, Adult, Calling to it's Mate (S3)
West Coast Pacific Gull
S5, Juvenile, In Flight
| West Coast Pacific Gull S2, Adult, Calling to it's Mate (S3) | | West Coast Pacific Gull S5, Juvenile, In Flight | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves) | |||
| Order: | Coastal Birds (Charadriiformes) | ||||
| Family: | Gull (Laridae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | West Coast Pacific Gull (Larus pacificus ssp georgii) | ||||
| This Photo: | 🔍S4, Adult, Underwing🔎 | ||||
| Other names: | Seagull or Western Pacific Gull | ||||
Thank you Tom Hunt (Moth_Nut) & George Seagull for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Coastal Areas and possibly elsewhere You can see here this is a marked difference in the colouration between adults & juveniles; with the juveniles being a sooty grey colour, while the adults are stark white and grey/black. There is a very similar introduced/cosmopolitan species, the Kelp gull (Larus dominicanus). Still quite rare in SA fortunately, and generally only found in the very south east & Kangaroo Island. The most obvious difference being that this one, the native species, has red on both the upper & lower beak; along with a black line on the upper beak. | |||||
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