Puzzling gull

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adriaens
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Puzzling gull

Post by adriaens » Mon May 09, 2011 8:27 pm

Some help with this 1st-cycle gull would be welcome...
http://users.telenet.be/peteradriaens/gullspec_Oostende
Photographed in Oostende, Belgium today.
Seems to show mixed features of Caspian and Yellow-legged Gull ?
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Ruud Altenburg
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Re: Puzzling gull

Post by Ruud Altenburg » Tue May 10, 2011 8:26 am

I vote for a pure YLG.
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JanJ
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Re: Puzzling gull

Post by JanJ » Tue May 10, 2011 2:48 pm

Ruud Altenburg wrote:I vote for a pure YLG.
That´s my conclusion to, a big one. Although plumage is tatty (which makes it more difficult) the underwing and structure would fit michahellis. However, could anything else be excluded?

JanJ
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adriaens
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Re: Puzzling gull

Post by adriaens » Wed May 11, 2011 12:28 pm

Thanks! I guess the headshape and tail pattern put me on the wrong foot from the start.
Yellow-legged Gull it is then.
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