Hi Gents,
motivated by Michal I can confirm that - as said previously - dark spotting varies a lot in adult pure cachinnans: most have medium to intense dark spotting, but few have completely non-spotted irides (below 10% in our samples from Ukraine and Poland). The background colour varies in the same way - some have whitish-yellow, others a bit darker and warm in tone, but again few have 'cold', nearly whitish colour that we usually associate with herring etc. I will post some example pics later on.
Best,
Greg
Caspian with pale iris from Poland
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Re: Caspian with pale iris from Poland
Hi again
Concerning the Jankowice colony this year, Jacek told me, that it was completely flooded - the sand-pit is 200 m from Vistula river - and no young survived - after c-ringing ;-(
All chicks c-ringed this year in S PL (200+, plus several adults, PDxx etc.) are from another colony in SW, which is located at a 'safe' Kozielno reservoir (smaller river, much lower water during both floods, thus mortality caused by floods didn't occur).
Best,
Greg
Concerning the Jankowice colony this year, Jacek told me, that it was completely flooded - the sand-pit is 200 m from Vistula river - and no young survived - after c-ringing ;-(
All chicks c-ringed this year in S PL (200+, plus several adults, PDxx etc.) are from another colony in SW, which is located at a 'safe' Kozielno reservoir (smaller river, much lower water during both floods, thus mortality caused by floods didn't occur).
Best,
Greg