Posted by Brian Rapoza on February 08, 2004 at 17:23:12:
I received a phone call this afternoon from Bill Elrick, a birder visiting from New Jersey. He has been seeing on Miami Beach a dark-backed gull whose field marks he believes add up to Kelp Gull. He has been seeing the gull in the area on Collins Avenue between 16th and 18th Street. He says at one point he saw the gull perched on top of a "mobile cafeteria." He described the gull as not large enough to be a Great Black-backed, yet whose legs, eyes and bill weren't quite right for Lesser Black-backed. He has video of the bird.
Anyone in this area should be on the lookout for this bird.