ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
THE GULLS AND THEIR ALLIES
Rosy Gull
As the sole representative of its genus, the beautiful Ross's Rosy Gull, or Wedge-tailed Gull (Rhodostethia rosea), is distinguished from the typical Gulls by its graduated tail and relatively shorter culmen.
This handsome bird has the mantle uniform pearl-gray with the remainder of the plumage white, usually tinged with delicate, peach-blossom pink, while in summer the middle of the neck is encircled by a narrow black collar which entirely disappears in winter. It requires several years, it is said, for the birds to reach the full plumage. Their home is in the high north, and even in winter they come south only to the northern border of Alaska, Kamchatka, and Bering Sea.
Their nesting places were unknown until 1905, when Mr. S. A. Buturlin found them breeding in the Kolyma Delta, in northeastern Siberia. They nest on bogs or grassy places in small colonies of from two or three to ten or fifteen pairs, constructing a shallowly cup-shaped nest of grasses and laying two or three handsome eggs of a rich olive-green, spotted with chocolate-brown.
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