Talk:Kelp Gull
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[edit] Young birds' plumage
In New Zealand, the "young" birds' (referred to, in my experience, as juveniles) plumage is quite different to the adults, a mottled grey-brown, with none of the pied character of the adults, though they're usually quite the same size. This seems to me not communicated by the sentence "Young birds have scaly black-brown upperparts, and a neat wing pattern". I wonder if this shows variation in the species, and whether a photo of a young bird would be useful addition to the gallery.
[edit] Does one of the images actually depict a western gull?
The one from Big Sur looks a little suspicious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.77.172 (talk) 01:40, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
