I'm new here. I was googling tonite trying to identify a group of birds my forum friend took a picture of while in Long Beach, CA in her travels. She wanted to see if anybody is familiar with it.
BTW, this site seems extremely user-friendly. Quite nice.
I'm trying to figure out how to put this picture here.
Hello from So. Calif. - 2008/10/25 12:50Hello there, Carolinamoon Welcome to the forum. Thank you. And, thank you for joining us, I hope you will like it here.
I am very curious now to see what birds she took a photo of
Hello from So. Calif. - 2008/10/25 16:35Just woke up, I'm going to see if she was able to supply an url/link to her photo next. This bird looks like a cross, between a very large tern (body is black) and a gull...its bill is red, black and white if I remember correctly) and the white down the front of its body. Its bill reminds me of candy corn, sort of.
Hello from So. Calif. - 2008/10/25 16:38Hah! Somebody beat me to the punch...it's a Black Skimmer! and they provided a link to the wikipedia article about them.
Hello from So. Calif. - 2008/10/26 05:55Wow... he looks so beautiful (on the wiki photos). You friend was very lucky to get to see them. I never saw one (but then, I don't live in the U.S. - neither north nor south - where, as wiki says, they live).
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