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Unringed birds

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:49 pm
by marsmuusse
I don't know if we have to create separate topics for taxa? Maybe just show the whole bunch of buggers here, to illustrate the magnificent time we had on the Zagreb dump!

For instance, we had seven birds from the Lesser Black-backed Gull complex.
No 1: adult with active moult in the inner secondaries and P10. Indication for heuglini. Originally found on Saterday 18 February 2012, by Albert Cama Torell, at the parking lot next to the dump. Again on Sunday, now feeding on the dump.

Attached images of No 1.

Re: Unringed birds

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 9:55 pm
by marsmuusse
Lesser Black-backed Gull complex, seven birds present at Zagreb.

No 2: adult with snowy white head. Lacking streaking, even in the hindneck.

No 3: adult with mirrors on both P9 and P10. Images of this bird attached.

Re: Unringed birds

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:04 pm
by marsmuusse
Lesser Black-backed Gull complex, seven birds present.

No 4: adult bird, ringed on Sunday.

No 5: 3cy, second winter bird.

No 6: 2cy bird, still most in complete juvenile plumage, except for some scapulars which have been replaced for 2nd gen feathers. Images of this bird attached...

No 7: 3cy, different second winter bird.

Re: Unringed birds

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:37 pm
by marsmuusse
Most gulls must have been Black-headed Gulls. For me, the constant sound of calling, begging and 'laughing' Cachinnans and the absolute beauty of these birds was really a highlight. Just gorgeous and dazzlingly beautiful birds...

Re: Unringed birds

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:39 pm
by marsmuusse
Most gulls must have been Black-headed Gulls. For me, the constant sound of calling, begging and 'laughing' Cachinnans and the absolute beauty of these birds was really a highlight. Just gorgeous and dazzlingly beautiful birds...

Re: Unringed birds

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:04 pm
by marsmuusse
Bewildering and sometimes confusing primary tip patterns in adult michahellis. Interesting eastern birds, in some respects different from S France michahellis.

Re: Unringed birds

Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:20 pm
by Ruud Altenburg
Bird no 4: the 'lesser black-backed gull' caught with cannon netting, compared to michahellis.

Re: Unringed birds

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 8:54 am
by Ruud Altenburg
Probably bird no 2, photographed on Friday on the parking. Overview shot by Chris Gibbins.

Re: Unringed birds

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 9:23 am
by Ruud Altenburg
Three Greater Black-backs observed, one 2cy at the river Sava on Friday and two adults on the parking on Saturday.

Re: Unringed birds

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 10:05 pm
by marsmuusse
2cy cachinnans.