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Bob OBrien Portland OR
On Sun, Apr 19, 2026 at 7:27 PM <chucao...> wrote:
> Tony
>
> Amar suggested this some years back. But in the end it really does not
> matter in the usage of the term "Nelson's Gull" as it is not a valid taxon.
> It does not need to follow any specific rules of taxonomy or naming. So if
> we have taken Nelson's Gull to mean American Herring x Glaucous, then we
> should keep using that even if the first Nelson's Gull might have been
> something else.
>
> Alvaro
>
> Alvaro Jaramillo
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> www.alvarosadventures.com
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> Subject: [BIRDWG01] What, truly, is "Nelson's Gull?"
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> Hi all:
> It suddenly came to me when doing some review work that, with the recent
> taxonomic changes in what we used to call Herring Gull (sensu largo), the
> moniker "Nelson's Gull" is possibly not correctly associated with Glaucous
> Gull x American Herring Gull. Given that the type specimen was collected in
> June at "St. Michael's" (now St. Michael) on the western shore of Alaska
> due E of St. Lawrence Island, might this hybrid be referable to Glaucous x
> Vega? I don't know where the specimen is currently housed (it was
> originally deposited in the US Nat'l Mus.; 97253; Henshaw 1884), but it
> might be quite useful for someone to track that thing down. Perhaps that
> task has already been completed. If so, I'd love to know the result.
> Henshaw, H. W. 1884. On a New Gull from Alaska. The Auk 1 (3):250-252. (On
> a New Gull from Alaska) Tony Tony LeukeringDenver, COeBird blog eBird
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