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Gull id, Norfolk, GB (1 Viewer)

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David Norgate

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Found this gull on Blackborough Tip this morning. Structurally it seems to suggest one id, plumage another (unless hybrids can look like this). Comments please.
 

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More photos here now. I wasn't aware that pale Herring Gull could look quite like this, with the dark subterminal spots, but the bird in plate 333 in the Helm guide has a similar pattern (though was not such a pale bird).
 
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