Named after a nephew of Napoleon , Charles Lucien Bonaparte, a leading ornithologist in the 1800s in America and Europe.
An occasional visitor to the lagoon.
I've read that these birds tend to keep to themselves, but these Bonaparte's were mingling with Oyster catchers and much larger gulls.
April 14/26
Colwood BC
Canon R5 II, RF 200-800mm
1/2000 F9 1250 ISO
