02 December 2024

November Monthly Notables

Sightings:

  • Common Gull (adult). Knox County, Maine. 01 November 2024.
    • Found the previous day, an individual with a blue field-readable band 74J. Same as bird found in MA in 2018.
  • Common Gull (adult). Knox County, Maine. 02 November 2024.
    • An unbanded individual, showing some henei characteristics. 
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull (4th cycle type). Lincoln County, Oregon. 01 November 2024. 
  • Slaty-backed Gull (adult). Benton County, Washington. 02 November 2024.
    • Returning for an 8th consecutive year.
  • Slaty-backed Gull (4th cycle type). Santa Cruz County, California. 04 November 2024.
  • Black-headed Gull (1st cycle). Wake County, North Carolina. 09 November 2024.
  • Short-billed Gull (adult). Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry County, Ontario. 15 November 2024.
  • Black-headed Gull (adult). Oneida County, New York. 17 November 2024.
  • Ross's Gull (5). Gambell. St. Lawrence Island, AK. 17 November 2024.
  • Black-headed Gull (adult). Onondaga County, New York. 22 November 2024.
    • Likely the same adult from Oneida County.
  • Black-headed Gull (adult). Lake County, Ohio. 23 November 2024.
  • Ivory Gull (5 adults & juvenile). Baffin County, Nunavut. 24 November 2024.
  • Little Gull (adult). Capital District, British Columbia. 26 November 2024.
  • Black-legged Kittiwake (adult). Cuyahoga County, Ohio. 29 November 2024.
    • The age is noteworthy here.

Notes:

  1. As expected, the floodgates for Vega Gull reports have been open. Two 1st cycles from California (found here and here) and a 1st cycle in Oklahoma hold promise. 
  2. The Slaty-backed Gull from Benton County, Washington returns for an 8th year. Thanks to Ian Paulsen for noting that this may be a North American record of a known SBAG that has returned to the same site for this many years.
  3. The putative Black-headed x Ring-billed hybrid (adult) that has been seen for a number of years around Cumberland County, Maine was reported on 02 November 2024. 
  4. A new apparent high count for the state, 635 Lesser Black-backed Gulls were counted in Hancock County, Ohio at Findlay Reservoirs.  
  5. A higher-than-average number of sightings of late Sabine's Gulls was recorded throughout the lower 48 this month.

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