Which gull is this ?
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:16 pm
Photo taken at Chioggia, NE Italy, on 22 Nov 2002:
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Which gull is this ?
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Re: Which gull is this ?
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:40 pm
Looks like a 1cy Yellow-legged Gull.
Re: Which gull is this ?
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:51 pm
Welcome to the forum Menotti!
A bird with a Finnish ring is unlikely to be a YLG... Given the similarities between YLG and Baltic Herring, the relatively advanced scapular moult, paler bill base and bill shape this should be a Herring. More pictures are welcome though.
A bird with a Finnish ring is unlikely to be a YLG... Given the similarities between YLG and Baltic Herring, the relatively advanced scapular moult, paler bill base and bill shape this should be a Herring. More pictures are welcome though.
Re: Which gull is this ?
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:03 pm
Thanks Ruud.
Here two more pictures, same bird, same place, same date.
Here two more pictures, same bird, same place, same date.
Re: Which gull is this ?
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:41 pm
It's a Baltic Gull after all, looks very much like our local birds! I'll drop a line to the Finnish gullers to see if they have ever seen in back in Finland.
Re: Which gull is this ?
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:54 pm
Really it was reported by the ringing center as a Baltic Gull ringed as pullus...however I received inputs about it being a HG 
Re: Which gull is this ?
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 4:21 pm
Looking at the second pic I have to agree with Ruud that it looks much better for a Baltic Gull (but I doesn't look good at all for a HG 
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