{"id":22189,"date":"2026-06-03T08:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=22189"},"modified":"2026-06-03T08:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:20:39","slug":"bonapartes-gull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=22189","title":{"rendered":"Bonaparte\u2019s Gull"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-attachment-id=\"22188\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?attachment_id=22188\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dsc04547.jpg?fit=2000%2C1523&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1523\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-6700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1780319687&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;233.4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dsc04547\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dsc04547.jpg?fit=300%2C228&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dsc04547.jpg?fit=904%2C688&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"904\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dsc04547.jpg?resize=904%2C688&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-22188\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sub-adult Bonaparte\u2019s Gull: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, June 2026 \u2014 While photographing our nesting Least Terns in light, this bird passed over relatively low. I knew it was not a Tern when I photographed it, but I had to look it up while processing the photos. It appears to be a sub-adult, perhaps first summer, Bonaparte\u2019s Gull. A portion of the sub-adults are known to linger behind the adults the first year\u2014and not make it to the Arctic breeding grounds\u2014hanging out along the Atlantic coast and in the Gulf of Maine all summer. Sony a6700. Sigma 16-300 Contemporary at about 600mm equivalent field of view (cropped). Program with flight and action modifications. 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I knew it was not a Tern when I photographed it, but I had to look it up while processing the photos. It appears to be a sub-adult, perhaps first summer, Bonaparte\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-22189\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=22189&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-22189\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=22189&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=22189&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Bonaparte\u2019s Gull","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[305],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26ui8-5LT","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}