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Ocean salinity, currents and tidal action keep coastal waters open in the late fall and early spring, providing habitat for seabirds that rely on coastal waters or open ocean for food. An enclosed bay, estuary, and open ocean create habitat for migrating shorebirds and wintering marine ducks.


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	Bonaparte's Gull

	Brant

	Common Eider

	Common Loon

	Great Black-backed Gull

	Great Cormorant

	Herring Gull

	Ivory Gull

	Red-breasted Merganser

	Ring-billed Gull

	Surf Scoter

Ivory Gull	PHOTO: 1 2

January 2009 will go down in the annals of Massachusetts’s avian history as the date when the Ivory Gull appeared in Plymouth (Another appeared in Gloucester). The small, pure white gull appeared on the Plymouth waterfront among a flock of more common gulls. The previously recorded sighting of an Ivory Gull in Massachusetts was over twenty years ago on the outer Cape. Ivory Gulls normally occur farther north than almost any other bird in the world. They live on the Arctic office pack.