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The Yellow-footed is the most common gull in the Gulf of California, and my abundant life bird(s) of this species were everywhere along the waterfront in La Paz, Baja Sur, on our trip to Mexico in January 2005, and then when we returned for a longer stay in December 2005. The species is similar in plumage and structure to the Western Gull, which is also found in lesser numbers in the Gulf, but is distinctly larger, has yellow rather than pink legs, and attains adult plumage in three rather than four years. Baja is the easy place to see the Yellow-footed Gull, whose occasional US appearances tend to be in the furnace-like conditions of mid-summer at the Salton Sea in the Southern California desert. |
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