{"id":11689,"date":"2014-02-11T09:05:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T00:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=11689"},"modified":"2014-02-13T09:05:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T00:05:59","slug":"donghae-february-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=11689","title":{"rendered":"Donghae, February 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bird News from Tim Edelsten<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At Odael beach today an assortment of gulls provided some amusement. Several were seen eating fallen snow (a useful source of freshwater) including one seen plucking snowflakes out the air as it roosted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Black-tailed Gull<\/b>\u00a0<i>Larus crassirostris<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Common Gull<\/b>\u00a0<i>Larus canus<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Glaucous Gull<\/b>\u00a0<i>Larus hyperboreus<\/i>. One apparent\u00a0<i>pallidissimus<\/i>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center>\u00a0<\/center><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Glaucous Gull\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2014\/02\/Glaucous-Gull_TE.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><b>Glaucous Gull<\/b>\u00a0<i>Larus hyperboreus<\/i>, \u00a9 Tim Edelsten<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>American Herring Gull<\/b>\u00a0<i>Larus smithsonianus<\/i>. One possible individual showed a combination of features indicative of this taxon, including pale ash-grey mantle, clear pale eye with orange-red orbital ring, head-streaking extending down to breast-sides, darker smudge around the eye, flesh-coloured legs, deep-chested structure, and heavy, longish bill with orangey gonys spot not reaching to upper mandible edge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center>\u00a0<\/center><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Presumed American Herring Gull\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2014\/02\/American-Herring-Gull_TE.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Presumed\u00a0<b>American Herring Gull<\/b>\u00a0<i>Larus smithsonianus<\/i>, \u00a9 Tim Edelsten<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Vega Gull<\/b>\u00a0<i>Larus vegae<\/i>. The 60 or so individuals present were mostly typical vegae, with e.g. evenly pink legs, shortish bill with obvious gonydeal angle, dark brown eyes ( two or three only with pale iris), steep forehead giving vaguely round-headed appearance, and heavy blotching down nape. One untypical individual however (photographed below) showed a paler saddle; neater, more attenuated structure, bluish-grey legs and bill and very little white at the primary tips.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center>\u00a0<\/center><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Untypical Vega Gull\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/birdskorea.org\/Images\/images2014\/02\/Vega-Gull_TE.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Untypical\u00a0<b>Vega Gull<\/b>\u00a0<i>Larus vegae<\/i>, \u00a9 Tim Edelsten<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Slaty-backed Gull<\/b>\u00a0<i>Larus schistisagus<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li><b>Taimyr Gull<\/b>\u00a0<i>Larus heuglini taimyrensis<\/i>. Six or seven present.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird News from Tim Edelsten At Odael beach today an assortment of gulls provided some amusement. Several were seen eating fallen snow (a useful source of freshwater) including one seen plucking snowflakes out the air as it roosted. &nbsp; Black-tailed &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/?p=11689\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[689],"class_list":["post-11689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bird-sightings","tag-donghae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11691,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689\/revisions\/11691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}