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- Wed Feb 23, 2011 7:37 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: Slaty-backed in the UK?
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Re: Slaty-backed in the UK?
Hello all! I thought it might be of interest to you to see pictures of two similar birds from SE Norway. Both were discovered from a distance and suspected to be graellsii LBBGs (rather rare up here). Closer observations showed that leg colour and wing-tip pattern seemed to point more towards dark a...
- Thu Oct 07, 2010 12:08 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: 2cy mich or arg?
- Replies: 5
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Re: 2cy mich or arg?
Hi all! Thank you for the replies. I just returned from a week in Spain and it didn't really prepare me for dismissal of this bird as a mich by the grounds stated. Even though the number of closely studied 2cy's were rather moderate (about 50 individuals), I had few problems finding birds with simil...
- Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:29 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: 2cy mich or arg?
- Replies: 5
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Re: 2cy mich or arg?
Forgot the picture from the left hand side showing more advanced moult in the (especially) median coverts. Well, here it is..
- Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:16 pm
- Forum: Identification
- Topic: 2cy mich or arg?
- Replies: 5
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2cy mich or arg?
Hello all! This is my first entry to this forum, and maybe I reveal myself as a very little competent "guller" by posting this entry, but so be it... 2cy gulls are among the most difficult I can imagine, since the variation is seemingly unfathomable...The last 6 years, I have scratched my head blood...