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Glaucous-winged gull        Images © Mark A. Chappell

Glaucous-winged gulls are the common large coastal gulls of the Pacific Northwest, replaced in the far north by the pale glaucous gull and in the south by the much darker western gull.   Glaucous-winged adults have gray primaries (white in glaucous gull).   Like most gulls, the juvenile plumage is a mottled brown, gray, and white.   These adult birds were photographed in Glacier Bay, Seward, Cordova, and Valdez, Alaska, or in Monterey, California.

  • Canon 10D, 1D Mk. II, or 1D4; 100-400 IS zoom at 300-400 mm, 500 mm f4 IS lens or 800 mm IS lens + 1.4X converter, fill-in flash (2004, 2006, 2010)