Here, dear readers, is a Western Gull chick: fluffy, adorable, innocent:
"Why?" you might ask, would the following have been written about such a creature:
"Much that is good and all that is evil has gathered itself up into the Western Gull [...] the Western Gull is cruel of beak and bottomless of maw [...] Nothing in the life of the Farallons [sic] is more striking than the rapacity of the gulls and their determination to profit by any excitement which will frighten the peasantry." --William Leon Dawson, in The Birds of California, 1923
A picture is worth a thousand words:
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| "Am I hungry? Yes. Can I get away with it? I'll try." |
And the eBird checklist for 20 August: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S24703382
SEFI 41.1
SCI 41
