Welcome to the ID Galleries section!
A place to share large sets of photos of some species that we consider could be of interest, since one of the hardest stages in every plumage or moult analysis is the photo collection. Hopefully someone will find them more useful than stored in our dusty hard disks!
Adult American Herring Gulls from Massachusetts, USA
This gallery shows a good selection of adult American Herring Gulls from Massachusetts, USA, taken in January-February. We have included examples of birds with a lot of black in the primaries and lacking the characteristic bayonetes and p10 pattern that are sometimes required to clinch the identification of a Herring Gull in Europe as smithsonianus.