Good day folks. No new photos from me but I came across a bunch of old ones on an old external hard drive that I haven't used in years.
Gulls are so common here that I usually ignore them but this one turned out good enough to be worth the effort.
It's a Ring-billed gull, common all along our Pacific coast in the winter. Photo taken in October 2015 and slightly reprocessed this morning.
The ring on the bill evolved as a visual cue that stimulates the hungry young birds to peck at it, which n turns causes the parent gull to regurgitate fish it had caught.
Gulls are so common here that I usually ignore them but this one turned out good enough to be worth the effort.
It's a Ring-billed gull, common all along our Pacific coast in the winter. Photo taken in October 2015 and slightly reprocessed this morning.
The ring on the bill evolved as a visual cue that stimulates the hungry young birds to peck at it, which n turns causes the parent gull to regurgitate fish it had caught.
Don't blame me - I didn't vote for him!
Nikon D7500 with Nikkor 18-300 mm; PSE2021, PSCS5
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