Okay, New Zealand this time

[firstfrost]

Travel diaries from harrock and me, plus more pictures than anyone could possibly want to look at, are here.

Comments

Gulls

[ricedog.livejournal.com]

According to this (http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/G/Gulls/Gulls/en), the gray-backed gulls have a red-billed and black-billed species.

Re: Gulls

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

This bit seems dreadfully unfair:

In the immature stages of the red- and black-billed gulls, there is some brown mottling on shoulders and wings, and a stage is passed through when the young red-billed gull has a black bill and the young black-billed gull a red bill