{"id":7277,"date":"2013-01-26T13:14:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T20:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=7277"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T12:06:10","slug":"gull-and-tern-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/01\/26\/gull-and-tern-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Gull and Tern Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-150423 size-full\" title=\"American Herring and Laughing Gulls and a Royal Tern, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gulls-tern-mia-mcpherson-7874.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gulls-tern-mia-mcpherson-7874.jpg\" alt=\"American Herring and Laughing Gulls and a Royal Tern, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida\" width=\"900\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27720%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20900%20720%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27900%27%20height%3D%27720%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gulls-tern-mia-mcpherson-7874-200x160.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gulls-tern-mia-mcpherson-7874-400x320.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gulls-tern-mia-mcpherson-7874-600x480.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gulls-tern-mia-mcpherson-7874-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gulls-tern-mia-mcpherson-7874.jpg 900w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Mystery Gulls and Tern<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I\u00a0came across this image this morning while working up my post <a title=\"Bird images from warmer days and all at 300mm or less\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/01\/26\/bird-images-from-warmer-days-and-all-at-300mm-or-less\/\">Bird images from warmer days and all at 300mm or less <\/a>and thought it might make a great image for a Bird ID Quiz.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are three different species of birds in this image, the image was created at Fort De Soto County Park&#8217;s north beach in Florida\u00a0on April 24, 2009. I have supplied three answers to the quiz and only one of them is correct. Get out your bird guide books, check out the images\/drawings and\u00a0geographic ranges\u00a0and see if you can figure out which answer is correct!<\/p>\n<p>Juvenile Western Gull, 1st winter Franklin&#8217;s Gull, Elegant Tern: <strong>1 vote (3%)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Juvenile Herring Gull, 1st winter Laughing Gull and Royal Tern: <strong>25 votes (83%)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Juvenile Western Gull, 1st winter Franklin&#8217;s Gull, Royal Tern: <strong>3 votes (10%)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Other answer: Clueless LOL = <strong>1 Vote (3%)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ll post the answer on Monday morning! (See the correct answer <a title=\"The answer to the Gull and Tern Quiz is\u2026\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/01\/28\/the-answer-to-the-gull-and-tern-quiz-is\/\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this image this morning while working up my post Bird images from warmer days and all at 300mm or less and thought it might make a great image for a Bird ID Quiz. 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