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Gull - Morro Jable, Fuerteventura, Canary Is. (1 Viewer)

Warixenjalka

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I'm a little bit of between two options (or maybe three) with this. Is it Audouins or Mediterranian Gull? Or even something else? It looked like too petite for a Yellow-legged.

On the last pic might be some other species. Photos taken on November 24.
 

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pics 1-5 are Yellow-legged Gulls (Audouin's are not this white on body underparts and head and have a peculiar dark pattern, different to other large gull sp.), Mediterranean Gulls also have mostly pale underwing, etc.;
pic 6 shows a 2nd winter Lesser Black-backed Gull.
 
The bill seems really slender for a YLG... would have thought all photos show LBBG, also the inner primaries are all really as dark as the outer on pic xxx253. But then, gulls are not my favourites...
 
bill can be small in female YLGs.
pic 1shows a typical michahellis tail pattern.
pic xxx253: you can actually discern the really pale inner webs to p1-3, in further primaries these simply are covered by the adjacent outer webs.
pics 2-5: body and head alltogether too pale for LBBG, tail band too narrow.
 
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