I'd be interested to know how common this plumage is. Obviously not that
common, if Tony hasn't seen one.
Peter Shute
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Tony Russell
> Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2010 9:06 AM
> To: 'Russell Woodford';
> Subject: RE: [Birding-Aus] Immature Silver Gull head markings
>
> Hey, that is interesting ! I've never seen a silver gull
> looking like that.
>
> Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of
> Russell Woodford
> Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2010 8:03 AM
> To:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Immature Silver Gull head markings
>
> Hi everyone
>
> Yesterday I had a bit of excitement - a gull with a dark head
> on the little beach opposite our place. It turned out to be
> an immature Silver Gull, possibly recently off the nest. We
> get a lot of immature Silver Gulls here, and many have dark
> patches on the head, some almost looking like wintering
> Black-headed Gulls at first glance.
>
> A friend who saw the photos of yesterday's bird was surprised
> at the amount of head colouring (and not surprised that I was
> trying to turn it into a Laughing Gull!!) and suggested I put
> the photos online. You can see it on the Birding-Aus website:
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> Go to http://birding-aus.org/ and click the Gallery tab.
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> Russell
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>
> Russell Woodford
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