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Subadult Yellow-legged Gull with a dark iris, January 24th
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:25 am
by Cristian Mihai
Re: Subadult Yellow-legged Gull with a dark iris, January 24th
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:11 pm
by Theo Muusse
Judging the non-adult feathers I think its a 3rd winter.
A 3rd winter without black on the bill is to say the least interesting.
Ever seen it before on michahellis or cachinnans??
Should we be thinking eastern to solve this?
Theo
Re: Subadult Yellow-legged Gull with a dark iris, January 24th
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:03 am
by Cristian Mihai
Yes, a third winter (4cy) bird. I will check my photos with 4cy birds for the black spot on the bill. By the way, here are a lot of pics with Romanian Yellow-legged and Caspian Gulls:
http://lou.bertalan.de/birds/index.php
Re: Subadult Yellow-legged Gull with a dark iris, January 24th
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:21 am
by lou bertalan
theo,
it's a bit early in the year but adult bills without black marks are not unusual in spring, early summer 4cy. even 2nd summer (3cy) YLG can have totally adult bills. i have seen that in spain and in romania (may/june).
lou