Talk:Kelp gull

Young birds' plumage

In New Zealand, the "young" birds' (referred to, in my experience, as juveniles) plumage is quite different to the adults, a mottled grey-brown, with none of the pied character of the adults, though they're usually quite the same size. This seems to me not communicated by the sentence "Young birds have scaly black-brown upperparts, and a neat wing pattern". I wonder if this shows variation in the species, and whether a photo of a young bird would be useful addition to the gallery.

Thanks to DickDaniels, there's now such a photo. Jlittlenz (talk) 07:46, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Does one of the images actually depict a western gull?

The one from Big Sur looks a little suspicious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.77.172 (talk) 01:40, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect species

The photo in the "Behaviour" section is not of a kelp gull, nor any species of gull - it is a brown skua (which is in a different family of seabirds). I've changed the caption so that it no longer wrongly states that it is a kelp gull, but I don't have a photo to replace it with. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.173.23.250 (talk) 13:54, 14 November 2019 (UTC)