Maybe you have noticed as well, at least quite often I'm asked by people "Why there is no cachinnans section on the ORG site?".
The answer was always pretty simple: "Because it would be mainly based on out of range birds in W Europe, and probably from mixed populations as well". That would certainly not give a representative idea of what cachinnans really looks like.
BUT!
I'm very happy to see the 256-rings project started in the Ukraine, and maybe people from Poland, Austria, Rumania(the Ukraine!!!) like to take pictures, write about numbers at their local patch, like to score moult development, etc etc from these ringed birds or other ring projects.
Still I think it would be best to base such a cachinnans section on birds either:
- with rings, to have known age, and known origin;
- or second best: from geographic locations where it is hard to image we deal with other taxa.
As you may have seen at:
http://www.gull-research.org/armenicus/05cymay.html
I think it is nice for people to see a combination of pretty pictures combined with interesting literature or field scores.
Fortunately we have Ronald Klein at this forum as well, who wrote very interesting articles on cachinnans already (could a summary be placed on such a page? ), and I myself very much like to see some kind of recent field work as well (either on migration patterns, moult scores, maybe behaviour as well, etc).
Finally: the goal would be a month-to month coverage of cachinnans as 1cy, 2cy, 3cy, sub-adult & adult birds (so about 56 sections to fill!!!)
If you have pictures, please always add date, location, photographer, and if possible a score in the field (if you have seen a bird flying away with tail, primaries and secondaries still juvenile, but you only have a photograph of the bird standing, such information is quite relavant).
Anyone in for such an idea?
Mars
Cachinnans on ORG
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Re: Cachinnans on ORG
Unfortunately I've never seen a ringed Caspian Gull, here in Romania, but maybe this (known?) resorce will help a little bit:
http://lou.bertalan.de/gulls/index.php
http://lou.bertalan.de/gulls/index.php
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hi
photos with pretty dark juveniles at the mouth of danube: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=291&p=1385#p1385
i'll come back on the research theme - let's bundle our resources!
lou
photos with pretty dark juveniles at the mouth of danube: viewtopic.php?f=11&t=291&p=1385#p1385
i'll come back on the research theme - let's bundle our resources!
lou
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Re: Cachinnans on ORG
See also:
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=279
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=49
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=170
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=169
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=91
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=80
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=67
and
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=100197
but most of these pics are also on lou's site
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=279
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=49
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=170
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=169
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=91
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=80
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=67
and
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=100197
but most of these pics are also on lou's site
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Re: Cachinnans on ORG
Given the number of Ukraine rings seen in Western Europe, that is a surprise to me/ disgrace to them.Cristian Mihai wrote:Unfortunately I've never seen a ringed Caspian Gull, here in Romania, but maybe this (known?) resorce will help a little bit:
http://lou.bertalan.de/gulls/index.php
Theo