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Glaucous Gull, Deep Bay

No. If you compare the bill on your bird with the bill of the bird in the original photos of Glaucous Gull, you'll see that they are quite different. Glaucous has a mainly pale bill with a dark tip  - roughly 70% pale, 30% dark with a clear demarcation between the colours.

The bird in your photo has a mainly dark bil with some pale coloration bleeding into the dark at the base of the bill.

I'm not a gull expert. Your bird is probably a 1st-winter Heuglin's Gull, the commonest large gull that winters in Hong Kong.

David
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