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Hi. The paper you mention is now published - see http://www.dutchbirding.nl/news.php?id=1072 It has been a long time coming; we started by being interested in heinei but then expanded to look at all four 'Mew Gull' taxa, so the project took longer to complete than we imagined at the beginning. But a...

Hi. Splendid, many thanks for this help Peter....

Chris

Hi everyone. I am aware that there is an IGM in April in Germany but do not have any further news/information - how to book a place, offer talks, where exactly the venue is, how to book accommodation etc. Can anyone please help with information or a web link for the meeting. I was expecting somethin...

Hi everyone.

Thought I would alert you to a few images of various gulls from Mongolia (all summer 2015) that I have now posted on my blog, at:

http://chrisgibbins-gullsbirds.blogspot.co.uk/

I hope you enjoy them.

Many thanks to Andreas Buchheim for making it all possible

Chris

Hi. Thanks so much for these truly fascinating posts and images. Interesting discussion about which LBB taxon is involved. My question would be whether the cachinnans in the images is pure - the angles in the pics are not ideal so i could very easily be misjudging the bird (in which case my apologie...

Hi everyone. I'm recently back from a trip to Ukraine (Kiev area) and have now posted a few images of typical and several of rather frightening birds on my blog. I hope you enjoy them; they are at: http://chrisgibbins-gullsbirds.blogspot.co.uk/ Many thanks to Visa Rauste and Hannu Koskinen for a gre...

Hi. It is a skua rather than a gull....

Best regards

Chris

Hi Lou et al. Yes, Ithink you have hit the mail on the head: with such variability in these eastern birds, all from a single place in the breeding season, along with the variation you mention for western birds, suggests a hard task for anyone trying to find differences between populations that would...

Hi everyone. Im just back from a wonderful trip with Hannu Koskinen and Visa Rauste to Azerbaijan. We were interested in collecting images of the local breeding 'eastern' Caspian Gulls. I've just uploaded images of a sample of adult birds onto my blog. I hope you find them interesting and a useful r...

Hi. This is superb. Thanks for these images. What a bird, and it seems to me to be very very strong candidate: 1. Full (and rather deep) black band on P5 2. Much black also p4 (both webs in fact, which is very encouraging) 3. Black on p8 nearly all way to primary coverts on both webs 4. Black on P7 ...