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Common or Ring-billed gull? (1 Viewer)
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SteveClifton
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I would agree with RBG
Jon Turner
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What about the all dark eye?
ScottishBirder
THE HUNGRY BIRDER
Looks like Common to me
The eye is pretty clearly pale if you look closely. It looks okay for Ring-billed to me.
SteveClifton
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Have a closer look...
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chris butterworth
aka The Person Named Above
RBG. Heavy bill, distinct spots on nape, no scapular crescent, thin tertial crescent and underpart colour not quite right.
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Dermot Breen
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It's a second-winter RBG, note the lack of white tips to the primaries. The age of the bird would explain why it hasn't developed the nice bright yellow tones to the legs and bill and possibly poorly developed white irises of a full adult. It's difficult to properly make out the eye due the angle of the head but they don't look completely dark though.
Btw. there has been a RBG x Common Gull hybrid knocking around the North for a while now which was born and ringed out on the Copelands I think but that bird should be a full adult at this stage.
Btw. there has been a RBG x Common Gull hybrid knocking around the North for a while now which was born and ringed out on the Copelands I think but that bird should be a full adult at this stage.
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