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Fun With A Goofy Immature Ring-billed Gull

By Mia McPherson|January 16th, 2024|Categories: Birds, Ring-billed Gulls, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: close up, goofier, goofy, gull, gulls, humor, immature, Larus delawarensis, laughter, park, pond, prim, proper, Ring-billed Gull, Salt Lake County, shadow, snow, snowbank, urban, Utah, water, winter, young|

I'm always ready for fun, and this goofy, immature Ring-billed Gull provided a bit of fun for me yesterday afternoon at one of my snowy local ponds.

46,000 Year Old Horned Lark Found In Siberian Permafrost

By Mia McPherson|December 2nd, 2020|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Horned Larks, Utah|Tags: Eremophila alpestris, frozen, Horned Lark, Icebird, lark, larks, male, permafrost, Russia, Siberia, snow, snow bank, snowbank, snowy, specimen, winter|

In 2018 fossil hunters in Siberia found a extremely well preserved bird seven meters down a tunnel in permafrost that turned out to be a 46,000 year old Horned Lark.