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Immature Silver Gull head markings

To: 'Tony Russell' <>, 'Russell Woodford' <>, "" <>
Subject: Immature Silver Gull head markings
From: Peter Shute <>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 09:43:05 +1000
I'd be interested to know how common this plumage is. Obviously not that 
common, if Tony hasn't seen one.

Peter Shute

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> Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2010 9:06 AM
> To: 'Russell Woodford'; 
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>
> Hey, that is interesting ! I've never seen a silver gull
> looking like that.
>
> Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Russell Woodford
> Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2010 8:03 AM
> To: 
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Immature Silver Gull head markings
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> 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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