Many thanks for those links - I will follow them up later.
In the meantime, here are some more 1CY individuals with barred axillaries...
http://morgithology.blogspot.com/2010/1 ... ommon.html
Geoff
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- Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:00 pm
- Forum: Common Gull
- Topic: Larus canus
- Replies: 36
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- Fri Dec 17, 2010 10:53 pm
- Forum: Common Gull
- Topic: Larus canus
- Replies: 36
- Views: 44471
Re: Larus canus
Peter/JanJ Thanks for your responses. Yes, these axillaries do seem to be uncommon - the two UK examples you link JanJ are pretty much the only ones I could find as well. Of course, my surprise is that I saw a bird with them on the first day that I started looking specifically at the axillaries (so ...
- Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:29 pm
- Forum: Common Gull
- Topic: Larus canus
- Replies: 36
- Views: 44471
Re: Larus canus
Here is another 1CY Common Gull with a slightly wider tail band, spotted rump and barred axillaries. Photographed in Edinburgh this week. Any comments on how regular barred axillaries are in this species? Geoff More pictures of this bird at http://morgithology.blogspot.com/2010/12/first-year-common-...
- Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:14 am
- Forum: Common Gull
- Topic: Larus canus
- Replies: 36
- Views: 44471
Re: Larus canus
Thanks for your very helpful comments and links JanJ and Peter. Common Gulls were not on my agenda until very recently so I am at the stage of rapidly picking up on the massive variety of plumage types. For example, I was unaware of the darker tailed variation in 1st winter Common Gull, but from all...
- Fri Dec 10, 2010 9:11 am
- Forum: Common Gull
- Topic: Larus canus
- Replies: 36
- Views: 44471
Re: Larus canus
Thanks for those very interesting links - I'd like to read that article in DB - I'll pop along the SOC library at some point unless anyone has an electronic version?... Funnily enough as soon as I saw the bird's tone and rump in the field I thought it was suggestive of one of the Pacific forms. Howe...
- Thu Dec 09, 2010 8:50 am
- Forum: Common Gull
- Topic: Larus canus
- Replies: 36
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First winter Common Gull, Edinburgh, UK
I photographed this first winter Common Gull with heavily marked rump/uppertail coverts and dark smoky marks on the tail in Edinburgh yesterday. There certainly seems to be a range of degrees of uppertail spotting in the local flock at the moment - but this is the most extreme individual. Obviously ...
- Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:33 pm
- Forum: Herring Gull
- Topic: Can this be argenteus?
- Replies: 9
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Re: Can this be argenteus?
Thanks for the link to the powerpoint - it gives a really good idea of the variation within (I assume) a single colony.
Could be that we have a little of that variation in SE Scotland as well.
Geoff
Could be that we have a little of that variation in SE Scotland as well.
Geoff
- Tue Aug 24, 2010 10:13 pm
- Forum: Herring Gull
- Topic: Can this be argenteus?
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Can this be argenteus?
Lou has suggested that I post a picture of this bird here. It is a herring gull photographed in East Lothian, SE Scotland, this month. The question is, can this be a local argenteus or does this primary pattern indicate it is an argentatus or intergrade from further afield?
Thanks
Geoff
Thanks
Geoff