Since I wasn't sure if there would be any other photos of the "string- of-pearls" pattern, I already posted an image of this on the MOU website's Recently Seen page. Kim Eckert On Nov 30, 2009, at 2:03 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote: > Mike Hendrickson just called to report that as of 2:00 PM today > (11/30) the Slaty-backed Gull is still posing for portraits at Canal > Park. Mike was able to obtain a couple of in flight shots that will > hopefully show this species' diagnostic "string of pearls" produced > by whitish supapical tongue tips in the middle primaries (p5 though > p7 or p8). > > Thanks to Karl Bardon for refinding this bird and getting the word > out so that other birders could admire this Siberian gull. > > Peder H. Svingen > Duluth, MN > ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html