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X. sabini? (1 Viewer)

Miguel Berkemeier

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Portugal - 23/10/2017
 

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Not a Sabine's Gull. On pic 4 you can see a dark secondary-band, underwing-tip seems darker. I'd say a large Larus sp. probably Yellow-legged? Hard to tell from this pics...
 
I'm no gull expert, but having seen both adult and juvenile Sabines's Gulls at close quarters (at a London reservoir after the Great Storm of 1987) I have to agree with Carery, this isn't one. What it actually is, I wouldn't like to say!
 
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