Ivory gull Pagophila eburnea

Identification Tips:

• Sexes similar
• Fairly small gull
• Black legs
• Black bill with yellow tip
• Large dark eye

Adult:

• Entirely white plumage

Juvenile/First-year:

• Mostly white plumage with dark smudging around face
• Dark, terminal tail band
• Black tips to flight feathers, coverts, and some scapulars

Similar species:

Iceland and Glaucous Gulls are similarly pale but are much larger and lack the black legs and yellow-tipped bill. First-year plumage is unmistakeable.