Featured Highlights - June 2025

Welcome to Featured Highlights, June 2025. This video series aims to highlight ideas found in The Gull Guide - North America. I'll be expanding on and detailing concepts you're reading about in the book, beginning with establishing a foundation for molt and plumage. 

This 6th video addresses a gateway ID that is one of the first hurdles encountered by beginning birders, and that is Thayer's Gull versus American Herring. Distinguishing these two can often be done with perched birds, but an open wing is almost always used for reassurance. 

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May 2025 Monthly Notables

Sightings:

• Black-headed Gull (1st cycle). Toronto County, Ontario. 03 May 2025. 
• Heermann's Gull (6th cycle/adult). Dare County, North Carolina. 05 May 2025.
• Atlantic coast bird, presumably, back here since early March 2025.
• Little Gull (adult). Saginaw County, Michigan. 04 May 2025.
• Glaucous Gull (1st cycle). Portage la Prairie Area County, Manitoba. 08 May 2025.
• Thayer's Gull (1st cycle). Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. 08 May 2025.
• Slaty-backed Gull (adult). Anchorage Municipality, (Anchorage) Alaska. 10 May 2025.
• Glaucous Gull (1st cycle). Willacy County, Texas. 12 May 2025.
• California Gull (3rd cycle). Essex County, Ontario. 15 May 2025.
• California Gull (2nd cycle). Toronto County, Ontario. 16 May 2025.
• Laughing Gull (adult type). Algoma County, Ontario. 18 May 2025.
• 1st for Algoma District.
• Black-headed Gull (1st cycle). Essex County, Ontario. 18 May 2025.
• Franklin's Gull (adult). Aroostook County, Maine. 19 May 2025.
• 1st County Record.
• Glaucous Gull (1st cycle). Lincoln County, Oregon. 19 May 2025.
• Here since late April 2025.
• Black-headed Gull (adult type). Grey County, Ontario. 21 May 2025.
• California Gull (2nd cycle). Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. 22 May 2025.
• Laughing Gull (adult type). Clatsop County, Oregon. 25 May 2025.
• Sabine's Gull (1st cycle type). Cape May County, New Jerey. 27 May 2025.
• Slaty-backed Gull (adult). Thunder Bay County, Ontario. 27 May 2025.
• Ross Gull (adult & 1st cycle). Nome Census Area, (Gambell) Alaska. 28 May 2025.
• Vega Gull (adult). North Slope Barrow, (Utqiagvik) Alaska. 31 May 2025.