Am I too gullible? – Jonathan...

So I posted a week or so ago about how I wanted to learn how to ID white headed gulls this year. And I asked for suggestions / advice on how to learn and got some useful tips so I am sharing them here.

Here are some of the posts and responses I got:

Posted to BlueSky

I think out on the west coast of the US that’s a particularly tricky challenge! There’s an excellent new photographic guide for N. American gulls – press.princeton.edu/books/paperb…. Also @alvarosadventures.bsky.social is based out there and runs excellent gull ID workshops!

— Liam Langley (@liamlangley1.bsky.social) 2025-01-20T09:18:59.489Z

And Also Posted to X

And on Facebook got some really good suggestions

A friend from high school pointed me to Jack Laws and all his amaxzing materials including https://johnmuirlaws.com/gull-identification-guide-free-download/

Another person pointed me to this book: https://www.amazon.com/Gulls-Simplified-Comparative-Approach-Identification/dp/0691156948

And someone else pointed me to this: https://thecottonwoodpost.net/2023/10/12/gull-identification-in-puget-sound/

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Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis
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