Season: Year round
Habitat: Shore or mudflat; Open water; Seen most often in flight
Breeding status: Breeds at Lower Newport Bay
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#29.03.102 - Adult L. o. wymani, the usual race seen (Feb
9). Photograph © James R. Gallagher.
Original available from the Sea and Sage Audubon
Library of Nature.
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#29.03.28 - Adult L. o. occidentalis (Mar 25). Photograph
© James R. Gallagher. Original available
from the Sea and Sage Audubon Library of Nature.
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#29.03.88 - Chicks in nest, Lower Newport Bay (Jul 12). Photograph
© James R. Gallagher. Original available
from the Sea and Sage Audubon Library of Nature.
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#29.03.64 - Juvenile (Sep 5). Photograph © James
R. Gallagher. Original available from the Sea
and Sage Audubon Library of Nature.
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#29.03.113 - Juvenile, molting to 1st year, basic (Oct 25). Photograph
© James R.
Gallagher. Original available from the Sea
and Sage Audubon Library of Nature.
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#29.03.104 - 1st year, basic (Jan 12). Photograph © James
R. Gallagher. Original available from the Sea
and Sage Audubon Library of Nature.
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#29.03.35 - 1st year, alternate (Aug 16). Photograph © James
R. Gallagher. Original available from the Sea
and Sage Audubon Library of Nature.
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#29.03.18 - 2nd year, basic (Dec 11). Photograph © James
R. Gallagher. Original available from the Sea
and Sage Audubon Library of Nature.
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#29.03.71 - 3rd year, basic, wymani (Feb 9). Photograph ©
James R. Gallagher. Original available
from the Sea and Sage Audubon Library of Nature.
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#29.03.17 - 3rd year, alternate, wymani (Jul 31). Photograph
© James R. Gallagher. Original available
from the Sea and Sage Audubon Library of Nature.
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#29.03.123 - Sub-Adult (Nov 12). Photograph © James
R. Gallagher. Original available from the Sea
and Sage Audubon Library of Nature.