Irish Birding Sighting Record
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Sighting Ref : IB138360
Sighting Date : 12 Mar 21
Common Name : Bonaparte's Gull
Scientific Name : Chroicocephalus philadelphia
Location : Wexford Town
County : Wexford
Number Seen : 1
Principal Observer(s) : Killian Mullarney Not Specified
Reported By : Not Specified
Comments : 16:40 2nd winter. Off the sewage outlet 200m South of the Talbot Hotel before joining a gull flock off Maulintown, 500m farther South. (The dark marks on the outer web of p9 and tiny dark spots at the tips of the primary coverts indicate that it is a 2w, rather than an adult).
Status : See IRBC Appendix 2
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Photographer(s) : © Killian Mullarney