Possible Yellow leg Gull. UK (1 Viewer)

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DaiTheDragon

Well-known member

• Mar 27, 2011

• #1

Could some one please tell me if this is a Yellow leg Gull. Taken at Sandy Water Park, Llanelli on the 26th March.
Thanks for any help.
Dai

 

Cristian Mihai

Cristian Mihai

• Mar 27, 2011

• #2

Did you manage to read the colored ring? It seems that the code is LAA, but I'm not 100% sure about it...

 

Last edited: Mar 27, 2011

driverpaul

The Trent Birder

• Mar 27, 2011

• #3

Cristian Mihai said:

Did you manage to read the colored ring? It seems that the code is LAA, but I'm not 100% sure about it...

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Looks like a Lesser Black Backed to me...nice shot too..

Paul

 

Steve Arlow

Well-known member

• Mar 27, 2011

• #4

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Details of the ring, Blue LAA, can be obtain from here:

Extract from CR-Birding

Blue ring (on left leg) with white code (number, followed by 2 letters, beginning 0AA). BTO metal ring on right leg.

Chris Honan, 16 The Priory, Westcourt, Drogheda, Ireland.

e-mail: [email protected]

website: www.gulls.ie (Site will be available in September 2009.)

note 1 : blue ring (on left leg) with white vertical code (number, followed by 2 letters, beginning 0AA). BTO metal ring on right leg.

note 2 : first birds of study were ringed as pulli on east coast of Ireland during Summer 2009.

 

Cristian Mihai

Cristian Mihai

• Mar 27, 2011

• #5

As all the others wrote, it's a LBB Gull.

But what do you think about this one? It is labeled as Herring Gull.
http://dawney.wildlifewales.co.uk/W...?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=249#top_display_media

 

lou salomon

the birdonist

• Mar 27, 2011

• #6

Cristian Mihai said:

As all the others wrote, it's a LBB Gull.

But what do you think about this one? It is labeled as Herring Gull.
http://dawney.wildlifewales.co.uk/W...?album=lastup&cat=0&pid=249#top_display_media

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surely not a herring but a LBBG as well.