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- Sat Jan 02, 2010 12:37 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Mandal Gull
- Replies: 4
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Re: Mandal Gull
possibly a hybrid, most features however like shorter bill, pale outer webs to inner primaries, short legs, tail pattern with a lot of dark marks, also coverts and scapulars point more towards argentatus and we probably won't ever know if it has cachi blood or not. some finnish HG look very similar ...
- Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:37 pm
- Forum: Yellow-legged Gull
- Topic: moult in 1cy
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13336
Re: moult in 1cy
regular transversal bars surely are ok like in this bird, 1 2009.01.17 tineretului cm 9902m - Kopie.jpg but the bird in question shows a complicated filigran pattern well inside the "core" of the tertial. surely it's a 1cy and surely GC are 2nd generation (with a 'fitting' pattern) but then there's ...
- Thu Dec 31, 2009 6:25 pm
- Forum: Yellow-legged Gull
- Topic: moult in 1cy
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13336
Re: moult in 1cy
that tertial pattern is quite odd.
- Thu Dec 31, 2009 6:22 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: argentatus?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5303
Re: argentatus?
maybe you saw the p10 mirrors... how often does this occure in graellsii??? i recall having seen this in 2nd generation heuglini primaries, but graellsii?
lou
lou
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:34 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Could be a Herring Gull
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4528
Re: Could be a Herring Gull
hi delfín, superficially it looks like a herring gull - rel. plain brown and with speckled greater covert bar. on closer view i think these GC are renewed (2nd generation) ones as are many outer median coverts just above them, head and bill shape also looks better for YLG. at a point i was also a co...
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 4:37 pm
- Forum: Yellow-legged Gull
- Topic: moult in 1cy
- Replies: 16
- Views: 13336
replaced GC and TT
hi, 2nd gen. GC and TT and some 3rd gen. scapulars in this michahellis from yesterday, bucharest, pic by cristian: http://www.birdforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=234977&d=1262127200 on first view i was a bit surprised about that GC pattern... many plain grey lookiong scpulars in this ind. also...
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:29 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: cachinnans? or hybrid in Denmark
- Replies: 5
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Re: cachinnans? or hybrid in Denmark
kent, jan, ... as we have seen variation in primary pattern and bill shape in breeding birds from the black sea is much larger than we are used to accept for western european winter guests. for example a pronounced or hanging gonys is shown by rel. many birds in the dobrogea/danube delta. (see the a...
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:57 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Could be a Herring Gull
- Replies: 7
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- Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:55 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: argentatus?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5303
Re: argentatus?
well, could of course be an intermedius but scapulars do look rel. pale for that especially for those which almost get black as adults. but i can't give any better suggestion either. heuglini/barabensis seem off as they'd have a much more advanced plumage by now.
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 8:22 am
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: argentatus?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5303
Re: argentatus?
a graellsii in winter in stockholm???JanJ wrote:Hi all.
What are you people's impression when seing Alan Dalton's gull - taken in Stockholm today? It looks a bit dark and the scapular pattern seems odd for a 2cy argentatus. A LBBG is a better option of course, I see that now
Jan
lou