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Hi all, this first-year gull, larger than a Yellow-legged Gull was observd by me on 11 and photographed by Luca Boscain on 13 december 2012 at Chioggia near Venice, NE Italy. Is it symply a large Herring "argentatus" or what ?

This LWHG was photographed on 17 november 2012 at Rimini, Adriatic, NE Italy, by Cristian Montevecchi. It shows the features of the American Herring Gull (Larus smithsonianus):

http://gabbianigulls.blogspot.it/2012/1 ... italy.html

Hi all. A friend of mine was able to take a photo recently of a mistery gull. The gull was photographed side to a YLG that appears a little bit smaller and paler. Thanks for commenting (sorry for the picture, I hope to post a better one ASAP. Photo taken near Treviso, NE Italy. Cheers Menotti Passar...

Saturday morning 20 march a "graellsii-type" gull was observed by me and Mike Resch from MA, Usa. However both of us agreed about the gull being not fitting the field characters of the Lesser-black backed Gulls that we observed either in Italy (me) or East Coast of Usa (Mike). Indeed the bird had sq...

Hi Mars, many thanks. However, IMHO, the only form to rule out is Larus fuscus graellsii, of which I have personally a very limited experience, since it is very unusual in NE Italy (we have many more argentatus Herring and Caspian gulls, and a few intermedius).

Four photos of the same bird taken by Marco Basso in Chioggia, NE Italy, on 4th to 25th April 2005 http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/9106/chioggialarus2005b.jpg http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4516/chioggialarus2005c.jpg http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3217/chioggialarus2005.jpg http://img246.i...

Two photos taken at Chioggia, NE Italy, by Marco Basso on 16 Nov 2004

Interesting advanced moult of scapulars and tertials...

I would agree for a Baltic Gull in the last photo...

Pictures taken at the refuse dump of Ravenna, NE Italy, on 29th Jan 2004



An unusual trio: Heuglin's, Yellow-legged and argentatus Herring Gull: