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Short-billed Gull*
Larus brachyrhynchus
(L 16-18" WS 39-47" Wt 15
oz)
One of the smallest “white-headed”
gulls...along the Pacific Coast in winter.
Kirby Park
Elkhorn
19Dec2012
Larus in Latin means rapacious
seabird; brachyrhynchus
 is Latin for short bill.
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© Mike
Andersen
Macaulay
Library
If I were to command a general to
turn into a seagull, and if the general
did not obey, that would not be the
general‘s fault. It would be mine.
(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)