Sabine’s Gull Xema sabini (Sabine, 1819)

Nome, Alaska © Nigel Milbourne 2012

  1. One, juvenile, 3rd-4th Sep. 1988 (Many observers).

Two juveniles, watched by Roy Curber, stopped briefly to bathe and preen at Chew Valley Lake on 15th October, 1991 before flying off, high, towards Blagdon. Unfortunately, there was no-one there to see them!

Bibliography (sources of information):

  1. Taylor, S.M. (ed.). Avon Bird Report, 1988. Avon Ornithological Group.
  2. Davis, A.H. (ed.). Avon Bird Report, 1991. Avon Ornithological Group.