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The yellow-footed gull is a Mexican species that resembles the western gull, but has bright yellow feet. Yellow-footed gulls are big birds, with dark 'mantles' and a noticeably large bill. After breeding and during the heat of the summer, a few of them stray into southern California's Salton Sea, where they can feed on the abundant barnacles and introduced Tilapia fish. I photographed most of these birds -- including a first-year gull with typical brown-streaked juvenile plumage -- on a warm July day on the north shore of the Sea (most of the photos were taken fairly early in the morning, before it got really hot). One photo shows a yellow-footed gull with a California gull. |
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