ID help on Gulls in Dhofar in Oman, February 2024 (1 Viewer)

[Peyodanduche]

Bonjour, living in mountains for decades, I am feeling uneasy with id of gulls, even more in a country like Oman visited for the first time.
I should be glad to find help in the id of these ones.

9445 : long parallel-sided bill, innocent facial expression and rounded head, long winged let me think of a cachinnans ... but mantle seems too dark ?
9703 & 9707 : I should say Heuglini, but the gull on the right, specially on 9707, seems however different, with rounder shape of head and cachinnans face... but again the mantle is darker .. and bill doesnt seem long enough ????

Thanks in advance for your comments and have a good day !!

 

[lou salomon]

Hello,
all your birds look good for Heuglin's Gulls. Mantle tone in first pic is hard to assess, it's a 3cy and could be both heuglini or barabensis but it just feels beetter for heuglini, looks dark enough.

 

[Peyodanduche]

Hello,
all your birds look good for Heuglin's Gulls. Mantle tone in first pic is hard to assess, it's a 3cy and could be both heuglini or barabensis but it just feels beetter for heuglini, looks dark enough.

Thanks a lot for your useful comments !