Paul Rule
Well-known member
I took up birding seriously again about 2 years ago, after a long period of abstinence. Back in my earlier birding phase, I always had ID problems with Gulls, especially in the juvenile phases. Since returning to this hobby I find things had gotten far worse, where the hell have all these new species come from? Yellow Leg & Caspian? They all look like Herring Gulls to me.
This sounds like a cunning plan by all the twitchers out there to up the tick list by a couple of notches. I would not be surprised to find in a few years time yet more new gulls this time the only way to split then is by DNA analysis or a very expensive scope with built in scanners (such as used in Star Trek)
Paul 3
This sounds like a cunning plan by all the twitchers out there to up the tick list by a couple of notches. I would not be surprised to find in a few years time yet more new gulls this time the only way to split then is by DNA analysis or a very expensive scope with built in scanners (such as used in Star Trek)
Paul 3