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Oddballs

 

 

The images linked below are of birds exhibiting plumage aberrations, possible hybirds, and assorted other oddities.

An aberrant Wilson's Storm-Petrel - Provincetown, May 2005

An albino White-winged Scoter - Chatham, August 2004

SHOREBIRDS:

A very pale Semipalmated Plover - Eastham, August 2002

A leucistic Willet - North Monomoy, July 2004

An aberrant Semipalmated Sandpiper - South Beach, July 2006 & 2007

A leucistic sandpiper, possibly a Western Sandpiper - Eastham, August 2002

Apparent White-rumped Sandpiper X Dunlin hybrids - South Beach, June-July, 2008

GULLS

A dark-mantled, Herring-type gull - Provincetown, November 2002

A possible European Herring Gull (juvenile) - South Monomoy, Chatham, November 2003

A possible Herring X Lesser Black-backed Gull hybrid - South Beach, Chatham, October 2003

A possible Yellow-legged Gull - South Beach, Chatham, September 2006

An apparent Herring X Lesser Black-backed Gull hybrid - South Harwich, February 2008

Two puzzling Lesser Black-backed type gulls - North Monomoy & Stellwagen Bank, July 2008

A puzzling juvenile gull - Provincetown, November 2008

An apparent Herring X Glaucous Gull (aka "Nelson's Gull") - Provincetown, November 2008

A possible Herring X Lesser Black-backed Gull hybrid - Truro, January 2009

A known Herring X Lesser Black-backed Gull - Provincetown, December 2009 (banded as a chick in New Hampshire)

A presumed Herring X Lesser Black-backed Gull hybrid - Provincetown, January 2010

Another presumed Herring X Lesser Black-backed Gull - Hyannis, January 2012.

 


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