and fall along the shores of the seas of the world,ever water to Pacific 
islands, and inland particularly about larger bodies of water. Casual 
in Jan Mayen, Pranz Josef Land, and New Zealand. (AOU Check-list of North 
American Birds, 1957)* 
Population: Individuals have been seen on four of the six POBSP visits to 
the island. About 20 birds were seen in March of both 1963 aftd 1964-. Two 
were seen in September 1964-, and five were seen with a flock of Golden 
Plover in March I963. 
Individuals are found from September through May, with a peak in 
September and October, on Eure Atoll, 500 miles to the northvest. Ibe 
maximum count for 20 months data on Kure was 18, and counts over 10 occurred 
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Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens) 
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Current Status : Accidental or rare visitor. 
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An immature was Collected along the rocky east beach in March 1965. 
The POBSP has found this the most numerous species of gull in the Leeward 
Hawaiians. Six immatures have been collected by the POBSP on Kure Atoll, 
300 miles to the northwest, and three immatures have been taken at Pearl 
and Hermes Reef, 150 miles to the northwest. 
Range : Breeds from the Komandorskie Islands, St. Lawrence Island, western 
Alaska, the Erihilof and Aleutian Islands, and southeastern Alaska south 
to northwestern Washington. Non-breeding birds are found in summer south 
to California, Winters from Bering Island to Kamchatka, and the Durile 
Islands south to Baja California, the Gulf of California, and Samoa. 
Casual in eastern China and accidental in Oklahoma and the Hawaiian Islands 
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(Laysan, Oahu, Hawaii). (AOU Check-list of North American Birds, 1957)* 
POBSP Specimen : USBM 494133, c f, te. 4 mm., 12 March I965. 
