P10 on the left wing is growing in. If P10 is straight, then P9 seems to be
missing and consequently P8 would be longest primary in the right wing. On the
other hand - if I can count correctly - it appears that the longest primary may
be P9 (and p10 is overly spread - hence the gap). The right wing seems to have
all primaries in place. Anyway, I guess that something has screwed up the moult
cycle in this bird. I still go for 3rd winter Kelp Gull. (I cannot "make it
into" any of the Northern hemisphere dark-backed Larus-gulls).
Nikolas
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Nikolas Haass
Sydney, NSW
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Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 8:54 AM
Subject: Species ID help please
Thanks to all those who have replied on and off list.
A few people have asked to see more. The bird was a fair way out to sea and is
tiny in the full frame so I don't have anything much better than what was
posted on the blog but I have put together a sequence of unedited 100% crops at
http://www.smissen.net/images/UnknownSpecies.jpg
(Note this is a wide image so, depending on browser seetings, you may need to
zoom in for full magnification.)
When asking for ID help I prefer to give no opinion because "what is this?" is
a very different question from "is this a Kelp Gull?". I agree with others that
it looks more like an immature Kelp Gull than anything else but I have not seen
one with this sort of a hood before when the rest of the white parts (under
body, tail and wing trailing edge) are so advanced.
Regarding the tern, yep, I agree it is a White-fronted Tern, not Common Tern as
I originally ID'd it (what was I thinking?)
Thanks for your help
Cheers,
Ian Smissen
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