Sabine's

Sabines English Noun * en Sabine's gull. en 1994 w:Bill Oddie Simply the Best: Scilly Follow That Bird! Around the World with a Passionate Bird-Watcher London Robson Books 39 https://archive.org/details/followthatbirdar0000oddi/page/39/mode/1up 0 86051 919 8 Well, the basic flight pattern of juvenile Kittiwake and Sabine’s Gull are indeed very similar. I defy any sea-watcher to deny – hand on heart – that he hasn’t strung the odd ‘Kitti’ in his time … even if his conscience got the better of him before he actually claimed a Sabine’s. I also knew I had never seen a Sabine’s – until that moment. It wasn’t a Kittiwake – more like a Little Gull in fact – but it was, without doubt, a Sabine’s. en 2000 Ann Taylor Watching the Watchers Watching Birds: Reflections on the Wing Camden, Me. Ragged Mountain Press / McGraw-Hill 8 https://archive.org/details/watchingbirdsref00tayl/page/8/mode/1up 0-07-134866-2 On a pelagic trip to Stellwagen Bank off the Boston coast, I watched a group of this type take a humpback whale in stride, get mildly stirred by the schoolmarm’s jaeger, and merely glance at a shearwater. But they changed their tune when a Sabine’s gull emerged from a flock of unremarkables. “A Sabine’s!” yelled one. “I can’t believe it!” She rummaged her checklist out of her backpack. en 2002 John Kricher All the Birds Were So Tame Galápagos Smithsonian Natural History Series Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution Press 123 https://archive.org/details/galapagos0000kric/page/123/mode/1up 1-58834-041-4 But it has been pointed out that the courtship displays of the swallow-tailed gull, easily observed on the Galápagos, differ considerably from those of Sabine’s gull. Did a Sabine’s flock once colonize the Galápagos and fail to migrate north? If not the Sabine’s, which species was the ancestor of the swallow-tailed gull? en taxonomic eponyms en Gulls