Not too many large white-headed gulls develop a 3rd mirror on the 8th primary. Common Gulls regularly do, but Great Black-backeds??
Olsen and Larsson note that about 10% of males and less than 1% of female GBBGs develop a small mirror on P8 (~35mm in males and ~10mm in females). Simply put, it's not commonly seen by most field observers. So I was super excited when I found this bird circling "The Devil's Dance Floor" on Appledore Island recently:
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