Board logo

Subject: [Gulls] 5 Feb 2010 Gulls [Print This Page]

Author: Beetle    Time: 5/02/2010 22:00     Subject: 5 Feb 2010 Gulls

Hope professionals comment on ids.
5 Feb 2010 Mai Po

白化紅咀鷗 Black-headed Gull





黑咀鷗 Saunder's Gull





黑尾鷗 Black-tailed Gull








黃腳(蒙古)銀鷗 Mongolian Gull





漁鷗 Pallas's Gull




灰背鷗 Slaty-backed Gull




西伯利亞銀鷗 Vega Gull (not sure)







遺鷗 Relict Gull

Author: cmichaell    Time: 6/02/2010 12:04

Great set of gull pics. Eight species on one tide [if you count Vega]! Just goes to show how good HK is for gulls in late winter.

Interesting to see the albino/leucistic Black-headed Gull in pic 1. I saw a previous one in Castle Peak Bay in March 1975 [see note in the 1977 Bird Report]. Olsen & Larrson note aberrant birds are not infrequent in this species.

As for your Vega gulls, see seperate discussion by Geoff of Owen's pics of same birds.

Mike Chalmers
Author: Beetle    Time: 6/02/2010 22:30

Thanks Mr. Tai for finding the white black-headed gull.
9 species in fact - i haven't included the Heuglins Gull




Welcome to HKBWS Forum 香港觀鳥會討論區 (http://hkbws.org.hk/BBS/) Powered by Discuz! 6.0.0