Subject: Two Gulls ID, please [Print This Page] Author: james4j Time: 2/02/2008 21:42 Subject: Two Gulls ID, please
Photo taken at MP yesterday, pls help to identify, thanks.
Author: John Holmes Time: 2/02/2008 22:12 Subject: Two Gulls ID
The top one is a first-winter (I think) Black-tailed Gull. Features to note are: - it is medium-sized, plain coffee-coloured and the bill is slim, pink at the base with the end third black in colour.
I'd say the lower one is a first-winter Heuglin's Gull - if only because Heuglin's is our commonest big gull. With these big gulls I recommend assuming it is a Heuglin's and then try to work out why it might be something else. If it was paler it might be mongolicus -Yellow-legged. If it was darker you might consider Slaty-backed Gull.
So I'd vote for Heuglin's - but I'm willing to be corrected !
John Author: james4j Time: 2/02/2008 22:31
Hi John,
thanks for your detail information. :
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