Comments on: Friday Falconiform #11 http://blog.jmlynch.org/2010/02/05/friday-falconiform-11/ suffering under the sun Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:46:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: HP http://blog.jmlynch.org/2010/02/05/friday-falconiform-11/comment-page-1/#comment-8710 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:03:50 +0000 http://jmlynch.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/friday-falconiform-11/#comment-8710 Okay. So, last weekend I was out shopping. The nearest major body of water was the Ohio river, about 20 miles away. While I was in this suburban shopping center in southwest Ohio, I looked up to see two birds that had the coloration of typical gulls but the body forms and flight style of falconiformes. They were extraordinarily lovely, and I was without a clue.

Based on the description of E. leucaris I found, these two birds were superficially similar, but they were well outside the range where these birds are found. Does anyone have a clue what I might have seen? (I’ve seen some lovely birds since I moved to this part of North America, but nothing like this pair of white-and-black falconiform birds circling over a suburban shopping center.)

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