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Posts Tagged → Gulls

Everyone’s least favorite species to identify. By all means, please correct me if any of these are mis-identified.

Brown-Hooded Gull

posted in Birds on May 10, 2016 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments

Brown-Hooded Gull (Chroicocephalus maculipennis), at the Laguna Nimez Reserve in Calafate, Argentina. These are either juveniles or non-breeding adults.

Kelp Gull, in Patagonia

posted in Birds on November 12, 2013 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments

The Kelp Gull is the dominant large gull species in much of the southern hemisphere. I mostly remember it for how it stood up to fiece winds as our boat crossed Lago Nahuel Huapi.

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Laughing Gull, in Emerald Isle

posted in Birds on September 21, 2013 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments

If you’ve ever strolled along an Atlantic coast beach, chances are you’ve encountered this gull, the most common black-hooded gull on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America.

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Dolphin Gull, in Ushuaia

posted in Birds on February 27, 2013 by Bob Ramsak 0 Comments

Spotted along the Beagle Channel in Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world.

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This is BobRamsak.com, a public notebook by Bob Ramsak.

I’m a long-time journalist, photographer and researcher driven by passions for environmental, social and refugee justice. I’ve visited 62 countries and write something and make pictures (almost) every day. This site is a notebook and photolog where I track and (sometimes) comment on those interests, journal my travels and log my current obsessions. At the moment the most dominant ones are the global response to the climate crisis and a renewed passion for birding and bird photography.

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