File talk:Baby gull.jpg
Latest comment: 17 years ago by Ilmari Karonen in topic Gull identification...
I'm coming to the aid of a fellow Wikipedian here - I found this question posted at Talk:Gull.
Does anyone know what type of gull this baby is? I'd actually be quite interested to know myself, being an avid gull fanboy... --Kurt Shaped Box 23:19, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
Googleimages thinks it's a plain western baby gull (searched for ... baby gull). Do you need some western latin name ? [She gulps sea gull on the sea. Whore!] --DLL 19:31, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
- The photo is from Norway, so it almost certainly isn't a Western gull. It could, however, be just about any of the gulls found in Norway, which include the Common gull, the Herring gull, the Lesser and Greater black-backed gulls, the Glaucous gull and the Black-headed gull. Based on the photos I could find on the web, Black-headed gull chicks don't seem to have an orange beak tip, so we can probably rule that one out — but the others all do, and look pretty much identical in all other respects too. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 15:24, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
- That makes sense. Herring, Glaucous and LBB gulls are all quite closely related. Thanks anyway. --Kurt Shaped Box 11:27, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
- I've copied this discussion here from Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 21:16, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
