Bonaparte's Gull, plate by John James Audubon
Audubon, Birds of America, plate 324, as “Bonapartian Gull”
Water & shore birds

Bonaparte's Gull

Chroicocephalus philadelphia
“Other gull types spotted off Dyer and Trundy Points and Two Lights State Park over the last several weeks include Iceland, Glaucous and Bonaparte’s Gulls and a Black-legged Kittiwake.”
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Feb 16, 2022

Other gull types spotted off Dyer and Trundy Points and Two Lights State Park over the last several weeks include Iceland, Glaucous and Bonaparte’s Gulls and a Black-legged Kittiwake.

Aug 10, 2022

…Seven Piping Plovers along Kettle Cove Beach on July 29 and an Artic Tern, a Black Guillemot and a Bonaparte’s Gull just offshore from Stratton Island on the last day of July.

Nov 8, 2023

The following morning of October 28 along Crescent Beach State Park I noted lingering Yellow-rumped Warblers and secretly singing White-throated Sparrows along with two Immature Bonaparte’s Gulls and a pair of Red-necked Grebes off Richmond Island.