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2cy gull for ID, January 24th, Bucharest
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:48 pm
by Cristian Mihai
Re: 2cy gull for ID, January 24th, Bucharest
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:07 pm
by Jonas Landolt
Hi Christian
I think it's a Caspian:
- small white head in contrast to the neck collar
- slender bill
- whitish underwing
- the wing pattern looks good for caspian
- second generation scapulars too
Good gulling
Jonas
Re: 2cy gull for ID, January 24th, Bucharest
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:21 pm
by Cristian Mihai
Thank you for your input Jonas.
Caspian it was my second idea too, for the same features written by you above.
Any other opinion?
Re: 2cy gull for ID, January 24th, Bucharest
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:30 pm
by Jonas Landolt
Why do you think it could be a ylg?
Lower mandible looks a little bit strange, but i can't see any ylg features or something that would not fit for caspian...
Re: 2cy gull for ID, January 24th, Bucharest
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:58 pm
by Cristian Mihai
The answer is simple: from some distance it didn't look like a "striking" Caspian and it was among many Yellow-legged Gulls of the same age. As a matter of fact, most of the birds seen by me there were Yellow-legged Gulls (I think I saw around 40 Yellow-legged and only two Caspian Gulls, including this one). My main concern it was to take pics with as many as possible birds (in a relative short time)...