Numenius is a geographer by training and temperament. He is a Bay Area native, and grew up roaming the East Bay hills. Pica takes her cue from Pica nuttalli, the endemic magpie of central California, chatty and alighting on gleaming things. Pica has another blog, Bird by Bird, in which she records her sketches of birds.
We bought a copy of this massive tome yesterday at the UC Davis Bookstore. It’s awe-inspiring. Gulls seem like the last frontier in birding, even more than sparrows…
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Good luck! Lump ‘em all into one species I say!
Yep, me too. I was trying to work out what the hell a PB1 moult was (prebasic first cycle, I think) last night when the power went out, so I’ll have to keep working on them.
Hrmph. I still there ain’t no sech animal as a Thayer’s gull. I can generally pick one out of a crowd but I still don’t believe in ‘em.
And neither does my six-foot-tall invisible rabbit buddy here.
I don’t believe in them either. But until the boys in black decide on their mischief, I’m not going to argue.
We have power back! Huzzay!