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

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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