www.gull-research.org

Some help with this 1st-cycle gull would be welcome...
http://users.telenet.be/peteradriaens/gullspec_Oostende
Photographed in Oostende, Belgium today.
Seems to show mixed features of Caspian and Yellow-legged Gull ?

I vote for a pure YLG.

Ruud Altenburg wrote:I vote for a pure YLG.

That´s my conclusion to, a big one. Although plumage is tatty (which makes it more difficult) the underwing and structure would fit michahellis. However, could anything else be excluded?

JanJ

Thanks! I guess the headshape and tail pattern put me on the wrong foot from the start.
Yellow-legged Gull it is then.