Featured Highlights October 2025

Welcome to Featured Highlights, October 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. 

Vega Gull is now treated as a full species by most taxonomies around the world, and this has resulted in increased interest in their identification. Video 10 discusses some of the caveats and pitfalls in identifying 1st cycles, comparing them largely to our more expected American Herring Gull 

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September 2025 Monthly Notables

Sightings:

• Laughing Gull (adult type). Humboldt County, California 01 September 2025.
• Continuing from last month.
• Little Gull (1st cycle). El Paso County, Texas. 06 September 2025.
• Black-tailed Gull (adult type). La Nouvelle-Beauce County, Quebec.13 September 2025.
• 2nd Province Record. 
• Slaty-backed Gull (adult). Metro Vancouver District, British Columbia. 20 September 2025.
• Black-headed Gull (adult type). Potter County, Texas. 20 September 2024.
• Kelp Gull (adult). Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. 20 September 2025.
• Moving about various locations in Milwaukee this month.
• Yellow-footed Gull (1st cycle). Sierra County, New Mexico. 22 September 2025.
• Continuing from last month.
• Little Gull (2-1st cycles). Nobles County, Minnesota. 24 September 2025.
• Great Black-backed Gull (adult type). Keith County, Nebraska. 25 September 2025.
• Slaty-backed Gull (adult). Grant/Benton/Franklin Counties, Washington. 25 September 2025.
• Returning adult, first detected in the winter of 2015-2016.
• Gray Gull (adult type). Walton County, Florida. 30 September 2025.
• Returning individual from summer of 2023, continuing all month.