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Accidental Laughing Gull in Italy? (1 Viewer)

pipaluk

pipaluk

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Hallo. Yesterday I saw this gull on the coast in NW of Liguria/Italy. I wasn't able to watch it for a long time but I succeed to take a photo by "bino-scoping". It is just one shot and a terrible one, but I think it could be a "laughing gull" (Larus atricilla), accidental in Italy. Could you give me some help? I am sorry for the poor quality of the pic. Thank you in advance.
 

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pipaluk said:
Hallo. Yesterday I saw this gull on the coast in NW of Liguria/Italy. I wasn't able to watch it for a long time but I succeed to take a photo by "bino-scoping". It is just one shot and a terrible one, but I think it could be a "laughing gull" (Larus atricilla), accidental in Italy. Could you give me some help? I am sorry for the poor quality of the pic. Thank you in advance.
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Hi Pipaluk

Your bird looks spot on for a Laughing Gull to me!
Nice one!
 
You sure are lucky! Too bad Liguria is on the far side of Italy from Slovenia ...
It's obviously a different bird than the first for Italy which had a ring. The C.O.I. (Italian RC) is waiting for your description :t:
 
pipaluk said:
Hallo. Yesterday I saw this gull on the coast in NW of Liguria/Italy. I wasn't able to watch it for a long time but I succeed to take a photo by "bino-scoping". It is just one shot and a terrible one, but I think it could be a "laughing gull" (Larus atricilla), accidental in Italy. Could you give me some help? I am sorry for the poor quality of the pic. Thank you in advance.
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There was a Laughing Gull on the jetty at San Remo in Liguria (NW Italy) in the winter of 2003/2004. It returned in 2004/2005 bearing a German ring!!. I don't know if this is the same bird. I wasn't aware it had returned this winter... perhaps it is a short distance away and has been missed.; more likely I haven't been paying attention. I can't see if it's ringed in the photo. Congratulations. I'm sure the Italian gull expert Menotti Passarella will be in touch with you about this.
 
pipaluk said:
Hallo. Yesterday I saw this gull on the coast in NW of Liguria/Italy. I wasn't able to watch it for a long time but I succeed to take a photo by "bino-scoping". It is just one shot and a terrible one, but I think it could be a "laughing gull" (Larus atricilla), accidental in Italy. Could you give me some help? I am sorry for the poor quality of the pic. Thank you in advance.
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I think it is a laughing gull, maybe the same of Sanremo (I photographed it in november 2004). "Mine" had a metallic german ring on a leg. Could you tell me where you saw it. I am very interested in it.
If you like you can see some photograph of the laughing gull we saw in Sanremo at the following address http://liguriabirding.net/easystore/SchedeVedi.asp?IDCatSchede=42
MAny thanks. Mauro
 
http://www.ebnitalia.it/QB/QB013/sghignazzante.htm

The German name of the species is Aztekenmöwe (translates as Aztec Gull). This special bird was given the German mans name "Atze", due to the similarity to the species name. (actually I don´t know if it really is a he)

He appeared for some yearsduring breeding time , also last year , in the big colony of Blackheaded gulls at the Nature reserve "Zwillbrocker Venn" at the German border to the Netherlands.

I tried to see "Atze" there last year, but without luck...

So congregulations to your sighting!!--- allthough it may not be "Atze", I think last year quite a lot of laughing Gulls got blown to Europe...
 
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