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wyverndragonborn · 2 years

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California gulls

We're unforgettable

Old French fries spaghetti on top

Sun lotion

People all over our beach

Gonna shit on them

Yeah gonna shit on them

#song parody #california girls #seagull #seagulls #evil birds #california gulls

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minmos · 4 months

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i hate bird identification bc it's like.

every single one of these are all different bird species and if you cant tell them apart YOU ARE STUPID .... now sit down and wait to get a rare bird alert for a seagull that's identical to every one you've seen before. and Your ass is going to have to buy a plane ticket if you think you're going to see a european herring gull in your pathetic lifetime. *spits on you*

These are all the same one though.

#minmoment #GULLS IN ORDER: 1. belcher's gull 2. olgrog's gull 3. black tailed gull 4. common gull 5. short billed gull 6. california gull 7. western #gull 8. european herring gull 9. caspian gull 10. vega gull.

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alonglistofbirds · 7 months

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[1996/11056] California gull - Larus californicus

Order: Charadriiformes Suborder: Lari Family: Laridae (gulls, terns and skimmers)

Photo credit: Volker Hesse via Macaulay Library

#birds #California gull #Charadriiformes #Lari #Laridae #Larus #birds a to z #described

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great-and-small · 1 month

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Hi what's your suggestion for Utah's state bird? I've always been slightly unimpressed that our state bird has another states name in it lol.

That’s really my primary quibble with the California Gull as a selection. The Mormon backstory is cool and I love gulls but it just seems silly to have another state name branding your state bird. That said, the California gull is really more of an Utah gull anyway so in my perfect world the bird would be renamed and Utah would keep it.

Utah has actually had something similar with their state tree. It was the “Colorado” spruce for decades before they changed it to the Quaking Aspen. It takes moxie to change a state symbol and I admire that! If I had to pick another bird for Utah I’d say something like the Golden Eagle (already the state bird of prey and very meaningful to the people of Utah) or maybe a shorebird from the salt lakes like the American Avocet.

Utah will probably never change the state bird because the California gull is adored by the population, but I think it would be reasonable to pursue a more appropriate name for the species.

#asks #state bird chatter #state birds #California gull

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northernpintail · 22 days

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#gulls #birds #nature #vancouver island #original photography on tumblr #original photography #nature photography #pnw #birding #bird photography #birdwatching #California or western gull maybe?

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na-bird-of-the-day · 1 year

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BOTD: California Gull

Photo: J. N. Stuart

"Part of a complex of similar gulls, this bird closely resembles the Herring Gull or Ring-billed Gull, and is intermediate between those two in size. It nests around lakes in the interior of the west, and winters commonly along the Pacific Coast, including offshore waters. This was the species that came to the rescue of the Mormon settlers whose crops were threatened by a grasshopper plague in 1848, inspiring the seagull monument in Salt Lake City."

- Audubon Field Guide

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mister-writes · 4 months

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Wait, why is there bird name drama about it??

The issue is covered pretty nicely in this article here, but as a basic summary:

A lot of birds have people's names attached to them (Franklin's gull, as an example). Some of the people the birds were named after are Not Great (racists, eugenicists, etc.). Plus, having People Names doesn't really tell you anything about the bird or what it does, unlike names like Yellow-headed blackbird or Prairie warbler, which tell you what the bird looks like or where it lives right off the bat.

Because of that (particularly the Racist Bird Name bit), there's been a recent push to rename some of the more egregious examples. But then you get into the tricky area of deciding who is Good enough to have a bird named after them and who isn't, which wouldn't be a good situation for anyone involved.

So instead, the American Ornithological Society, which is in charge of the official names of all American birds, has decided that they're going to rename every single bird that's named after any person. That's over a hundred birds in North America. This has irritated a big facet of the birding community, particularly older birders who don't want to learn any new bird names and/or think that the decision is too "woke" (so much so that someone on my local bird page went on a multi-post rant about boobies and bushtits and other "inappropriate" bird names that were staying the same).

I for one think it's a good idea, I think it will be pretty cool, and I'm excited to see what they name things! I kind of hope they have some kind of voting or submission period but I don't think they will haha.

#i love bird drama #and i have so many good names I hope they pick #first of all i want the Gambel's quail to be renamed the Arizona quail #california has a quail it's only fair #also I think this would be the absolute perfect opportunity to name something the Sea Gull

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200isoshearwater · 1 year

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