. Birds in Kansas. Birds -- Kansas Identification. 288 BIRDS IN KANSAS. California Gull Larus californicus (Lawrence) Status: The California Gull is a vagrant to Kansas. There is one specimen (whereabouts unknown) taken by N. S. Goss in Reno County on 20 October 1880. There are additional sight re- cords, all from Cheyenne Bot- toms, where Marvin Schwilling observed a bird from 18 to 20 January 1973. Wayne Hoffman made an additional observation on 15 April 1986. It probably occurs in western Kansas with some regularity, but there are few observers in the area, and thus far it has not been reco
. Birds in Kansas. Birds -- Kansas Identification. 288 BIRDS IN KANSAS. California Gull Larus californicus (Lawrence) Status: The California Gull is a vagrant to Kansas. There is one specimen (whereabouts unknown) taken by N. S. Goss in Reno County on 20 October 1880. There are additional sight re- cords, all from Cheyenne Bot- toms, where Marvin Schwilling observed a bird from 18 to 20 January 1973. Wayne Hoffman made an additional observation on 15 April 1986. It probably occurs in western Kansas with some regularity, but there are few observers in the area, and thus far it has not been recorded. Field Marks: This species, with the Herring, Thayer's, Glaucous, and Great Black-backed Gulls, represents a most difficult group to iden- tify. The complex plumages and interrelationships between species cause frequent misidentifications. Many have been misidentified even in museums with the specimen in hand; frequently a gull has been collected, only to find that it was not the species it was thought to have been in the field. It is beyond the scope of this book to provide comprehensive field marks. The reader is referred to Peter Grant's Gulls: A Guide To Identification (2d rev. ed., Buteo, Vermillion, South Dakota, 1986).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Thompson, Max C; Ely, Charles A. (Charles Adelbert), 1933-. Lawrence, Kan. : University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History : Distributed by University Press of Kansas
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