Ronayne88
Seán Ronayne
Hi all,
I've recently posted a thread asking how to id yellow legged gulls. I read the info, thanks very much - very helpful. When looking through some old pics of gulls, (of which i have hundreds) i came across a gull which may be a yellow legged gull.
The gull has a darker mantle than a argenteus herring gull, and appears to have slightly yellow legs.I have attached two pics: one of a regular argenteus herring gull, the other is of the gull in question. I am correct in using argenteus not argentatus aren't I?
From what I have read Argentatus herring gulls have a darker mantle than the argenteus type with much larger wing mirrors. If you look at the pic you will see that the wing mirrors on this bird are very small, which fits for yellow legged gull.
I'm not saying this is a yellow legged gull, just suggesting.
God, i never realised there were so many variations of herring gull. I only realised when i recently starting reading up on it.
Ps: has anyone ever read "The Macmillan field guide to Bird Identification"? It's a great book as it compares all of the "confusion" species such as the different gulls, grebes, skuas etc..
Any opinions would be much appreciated.
Cheers.
Seán. :t:
I've recently posted a thread asking how to id yellow legged gulls. I read the info, thanks very much - very helpful. When looking through some old pics of gulls, (of which i have hundreds) i came across a gull which may be a yellow legged gull.
The gull has a darker mantle than a argenteus herring gull, and appears to have slightly yellow legs.I have attached two pics: one of a regular argenteus herring gull, the other is of the gull in question. I am correct in using argenteus not argentatus aren't I?
From what I have read Argentatus herring gulls have a darker mantle than the argenteus type with much larger wing mirrors. If you look at the pic you will see that the wing mirrors on this bird are very small, which fits for yellow legged gull.
I'm not saying this is a yellow legged gull, just suggesting.
God, i never realised there were so many variations of herring gull. I only realised when i recently starting reading up on it.
Ps: has anyone ever read "The Macmillan field guide to Bird Identification"? It's a great book as it compares all of the "confusion" species such as the different gulls, grebes, skuas etc..
Any opinions would be much appreciated.
Cheers.
Seán. :t: