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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HH75" data-source="post: 1362294" data-attributes="member: 61">While I am loath to resort to the possibility of a hybrid, there could be a case to be made, though it would require better pics before going any further, for the bird being a Common x Ring-billed, a hybrid which has been recorded at least once in Europe (a bird photographed in Northern Ireland, which had been ringed as a pullus on Copeland, Co. Down).  Good to see someone else suggesting a medium-sized gull, as I had thought that I was going mad when everyone else was suggesting that it was a large species: while it may actually be a large gull, the fact that almost nobody else seemed to think that it was one actually deterred me from posting here...</blockquote>