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Here is a picture of its wing from January 2001, taken by Bruce Mactavish.
There was no hint of a white mirror on P9 then, and as in 2003 there was no dark mark on P5.

This adult gull spent several winters at the St John's sewage outflow, Newfoundland, Canada, back in 2001 - 2003. Here are my images of it, taken in February 2003. They are just video stills, but that only adds to the mystery... GullspecNewfoundlandJan03.jpg GullspecNewfoundlandJan03b.jpg GullspecNe...

Dear visitors of this forum, we are in the final stages of preparing a new identification guide for the gulls of the Western Palearctic. We are now urgently looking for high quality photographs of specific plumages of various gull taxa. We would be grateful if you could have a look at the following ...

Preliminary timetable: Modifications possible! Thursday, 14.4. The meeting-bureau is open from 10.00 14.00: Introduction and organization 14.30 Ulrich Köppen (GER): CR (not only of gulls) yields mass data - how to deal best with it on continent scale? 15.00 Hendrik Trapp & Heiko Michaelis (GER): Bre...

Hi Chris, information has been minimal so far indeed, especially for anyone who is not on Facebook (like yourself). I think the best thing to do is to write an email to Ronald Klein. All I know is that the meeting will be held at the Heide Spa Hotel in Bad Düben (http://www.heidespa.de/) from 14-17 ...

Hi Ryszard,

this is a dark Herring Gull.

The primaries are not very convincing indeed, but the tail pattern certainly is outside of the variation seen in glaucoides.
Therefore I would call this a Kumlien's Gull.

I am a bit late with this, but I checked the flight path of this bird and it does not look quite right. The link has changed; the Google Earth file is now on http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dcr/water-res-protection/watershed-mgmt/gull-study.html. If you look at the flight path and the data in Googl...

Hi,
no; this is a Great Black-backed Gull.

Hi, Something from Oostende, Belgium, today. has anyone else ever seen a 3rd-cycle Lesser Black-backed with plumage like this? Note dark shaft streaks on scapulars! LBBGull_3c_retarded_Oostende_13-11-2014_001.JPG LBBGull_3c_retarded_Oostende_13-11-2014_002.JPG LBBGull_3c_retarded_Oostende_13-11-2014...