June 2024 Monthly Notables

    Sightings:

• Great Black-backed Gull (2nd cycle type). Portage la Prairie County, Manitoba. 01 June 2024.
• Black-legged Kittiwake (1st cycle). Charlevoix County, Michigan. 05 June 2024.
• Ivory Gull (2 2nd cycles). Gambell, Alaska. 05 June 2024.
• Black-headed Gull (1st cycle). Roussillon County, Quebec. 05 June 2024.
• Black-tailed Gull (adult). Schoolcraft County, Michigan. 08 June 2024. 
• 1ST STATE RECORD. Continued through 10 June 2024.
• Sabine's Gull (adult). Cochise County, Arizona. 09 June 2024. 
• Laughing Gull (2nd cycle). Linn & Livingston County, Missouri. 16 June 2024.
• 1st County Record for both Linn & Livingston.
• Heermann's Gull (adult). Dare County, North Carolina. 18 June 2024.
• Presumably the Atlantic coast bird, last seen in east-central FL in mid-February.
• Franklin's Gull (2nd cycle). Miami-Dade County, Florida. 20 June 2024.
• Thayer's Gull (2nd & 3rd cycle types). San Mateo County, California. 20 June 2024.
• Kumlien's Gull (2nd cycle type). New Hanover County, North Carolina. 21 June 2024.
• Sabine's Gull (adult type). Kings County, New York. 26 June 2024.
• 1st Brooklyn Record since 1930s; 3rd NYC Record. 
• California Gull (3rd cycle type). Essex County, Ontario. 29 June 2024.

    Notes:

• A Lake Michigan high count of 98 Lesser Black-backed Gulls was reported in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, on 04 June 2024, by Jim Frank. The majority of individuals were one-year-olds, at the start of their 2nd prebasic molt. No adults.

• The Illinois Black-tailed Gull from late May was found 250 miles to the north in Manistique, Michigan, by Christopher Vogel, on 08 June 2024. A long-awaited 1st State Record.

• A significant passage of ~68 Ross's Gulls was reported at Gambell (St. Lawrence Island) on 05 June 2024 by Kevin Zimmer. This extraordinary one-day count exceeds cumulative Spring season totals of this species for this site. No definitive adults were recorded.