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.
          
         
         
            
               © 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)