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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruby" data-source="post: 1622327" data-attributes="member: 3679">Thanks Tina - a great report that takes me back to my own trips to the Algarve (wish I was there right now quite frankly, rather than watching the rain in sunny Surrey!)Your Audouin's Gull is indeed an Audouin's Gull - if it was out of the water a bit more you would be able to see the pale grey legs, which together with the red/black bill makes (as far as I know!) a unique combination...In my experience, by far the most common gulls in the Algarve are Yellow-legged and Lesser Black-backed, and Audouin's stands out from either of these by it's comparatively small size and much paler grey mantle colour, so quite often easy to pick out from some of the large gull roosts that you get in that area.All the best....   Ray</blockquote>