August 2025 Monthly Notables

Sightings:

• Franklin's Gull (adult type). Dare County, North Carolina. 01 August 2025.
• Short-billed Gull (2nd cycle). Door County, Wisconsin. 05 August 2025.
• Same individual found inland near Green Bay in July.
• Glaucous Gull (2nd cycle type). Barnstable County, Massachusetts. 05 August 2025.
• Slaty-backed Gull (adult type). Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska. 07 August 2025.
• Franklin's Gull (adult). Fairfield County, Connecticut. 07 August 2025. 
• Lesser Black-backed Gull (4th cycle type). Jefferson County, Washington. 09 August 2025.
• Yellow-footed Gull (1st cycle). Sierra County, New Mexico. 09 August 2025.
• California Gull (juvenile). Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. 10 August 2025.
• Kelp Gull (adult). Racine County, Wisconsin. 10 August 2025.
• 1st County Record. Milwaukee bird repositioning throughout a period of heavy thunderstorms.
• Slaty-backed Gull (adult). Juneau City & Borough, Alaska.13 August 2025.
• Common Gull (adult type). Halifax County, Nova Scotia. 16 August 2025.
• Lesser Black-backed Gull (3rd cycle). Sitka City & Borough, Alaska. 18 August 2025.
• Lesser Black-backed Gull (3rd cycle). King County, Washington. 20 August 2025.
• Continuing.
• Gray Gull (adult/5th cycle). Walton County, Florida. 25 August 2025.
• Presumably the 1st ABA individual found here in the summer of 2023.
• Little Gull (juvenile). St. Joseph County, Michigan. 27 August 2025.
• Black-headed Gull (adult). Atlantic County, New Jersey. 31 August 2025.
• Continuing.
• Kelp Gull (adult). Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. 31 August 2025.

Featured Highlights - September 2025

Welcome to Featured Highlights, August 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, and hopefully apply some of these ideas to identification. 

Lesser Black-backed Gull's expansion throughout North America is truly an enigma with zero nesting records found in the US and Canada. Fortunately, their identification is less of a mystery, with the exception of juveniles (1st cycles) which can sometimes present some confusion with the more common American Herring Gull. Video 9 highlights some of the key features used to separate the two. 

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