Dressed Up

by Dawn Currie

Title

Dressed Up

Artist

Dawn Currie

Medium

Photograph - Digital

Description

Photographic artwork by Dawn Currie. A solitary Laughing Gull all dressed up in breeding plumage along the shore near sunset.

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Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla): Swirling over beaches with strident calls, Laughing Gulls provide sights and sounds evocative of summer on the East Coast. You'll run into them in large numbers at beaches, docks, and parking lots, where they wait for handouts or fill the air with their raucous calls. Laughing Gulls are summer visitors to the Northeast and year-round sights on the coasts of the Southeast and the Gulf of Mexico.

Laughing Gulls are medium gray above and white below. Summer adults have a crisp black hood, white arcs around the eye, and a reddish bill. In winter, the hood becomes a blurry gray mask on a white head. The legs are reddish black to black. Immatures are much browner and more subtly patterned than adults; they take 2-3 years to gain adult plumage. The oldest known Laughing Gull was 22 years old.

I've encountered these gulls almost everywhere I go, but my favorite location for photographing them is Sebastian Inlet State Park near Melbourne Beach Florida where I found this handsome bird.

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February 11th, 2014

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