Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Revere Beach, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

Nov 9, 2025 8:00 AM – 10:45 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.31 kilometer(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Gull Identification Walk

Leaders: John Edmondson & Samuel Harris

Temperature: 53 – 55°F

Large White-headed Gull Molt Terminology Mentioned : Equivalent Plumage 

First Cycle Juvenile (FCJ) : Juvenile

First Prealternate (FPA) Molt : First-Winter

First Cycle Alternate (FCA) : First-Summer

Second Prebasic (SPB) Molt : First-Summer > Second-winter

Second Cycle Basic (SCB) : Second-winter

Third Prebasic (TPB) Molt : Second-winter > Third-winter 

Third Cycle Basic (TCB) : Third-winter 

Fourth/Definitive Prebasic (F/DPB) Molt : Third-winter > Adult Winter 

Definitive Cycle Basic (DCB) : Adult Winter

22 species

Brant (Pale-bellied)  10    Raft

Common Eider (Dresser’s)  10    2 atop rocks and a raft of 8

Surf Scoter  8    Likely higher. Raft out towards the lighthouse.

White-winged Scoter  15    Rafts everywhere

Black Scoter  4    Flock heading north

Bufflehead  1    Briefly seen trekking north

Red-breasted Merganser  8    Females/Immatures flying south

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  100    Estimated

Mourning Dove  4    Flying away from the Merlin

Ring-billed Gull  15    13DPBs, 2SPBs flying south

American Herring Gull  40    20DPBs, 2TPBs, 2SPBs, 15FPAs, 1FCJ (likely subarctic)

Great Black-backed Gull  6    5DPBs, 1FPA

Horned Grebe  12

Red-throated Loon  3

Common Loon  2

Northern Gannet  1    Flying out near lighthouse

Double-crested Cormorant  95    Estimated. Skeins traveling SE.

Merlin (Taiga)  1    Chasing MODOs along Boulevard.

Blue Jay  1

European Starling  25    Estimated. Mumuration flying around Ocean Ave Apartments.

House Sparrow  5

American Goldfinch  1    Heard calls from pine trees

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S284344050

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