Gull ID please (1 Viewer)

Julie50

Mostly in the Midlands :)

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• Apr 25, 2020

• #1

Hi

I am not good at adults, never mind juveniles!

Could you help with ID please. Trittiford Mill Pond, Birmingham, UK.

Is it a Herring? It seemed a bit big?

 

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aeshna5

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• Apr 25, 2020

• #2

Seems to have some good pro-Caspian features like long, greenish tinged parallel bill, small dark eye + long wings.

 

Julie50

Mostly in the Midlands :)

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• Apr 25, 2020

• #3

I did wonder - it did not look close to any of the other LBB/herring gulls which were about!

 

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SteveClifton

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• Apr 26, 2020

• #4

I agree with aeshna5 it's a 3rd calendar year Caspian Gull :t:

A bird in similar plumage here: http://gull-research.org/cachinnans/3cy/3cyapril04.html

 

Last edited: Apr 26, 2020

Julie50

Mostly in the Midlands :)

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• Apr 26, 2020

• #5

Thanks guys Good find for me in my local Birmingham park!!