Ivory Gull

1). 1887 Holy Island: The Lough, two, adults, seen, 3rd February.

(Galloway & Meek, 1978-83; Kerr, 2001).

3). 1897 Beadnell, first-winter, shot, no date, photo, now at Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

(Evans, 1911; Bolam, 1912, plate XXVI; H. F. Witherby, British Birds 6: 133; Galloway & Meek, 1978-83).

4). 1970 North Shields, first-winter, 18th December to 23rd February 1971; presumed same as Co. Durham.

(F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 64: 353; F. R. Smith and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 65: 336; J. M. Bayldon, British Birds 69: 308-309).

5). 1979 Seahouses, first-winter, 23rd to 25th December, photo.

(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 73: 513, plate 99; British Birds 74: plate 90).

6). 2013 Seahouses and Beadnell, two, juveniles, 7th December, photo.

(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 107: 607, plate 24; Birds in Northumbria 2013: photo).