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<blockquote data-quote="Gavin Haig" data-source="post: 1271284" data-attributes="member: 15000"><p>In 1985 a controversial skua turned up at Staines Res in W London. It was photographed, and as soon as the photos were processed (those were the days) I took them to the skin collection at Tring. At the time I noticed that juv <strong>Long-tailed</strong> had a 'mottled' appearance to the head (esp. crown) whereas <strong>Arctic </strong>always appeared 'streaky' This difference helped to clinch our bird as a <strong>Long-tailed</strong>. I notice someone else has mentioned this feature above, and that it is apparently published too. Good.</p><p></p><p>I am voting for <strong>Arctic </strong>with your bird!</p><p></p><p>If anyone is interested here are a couple of links to a discussion (of sorts) of said bird, with one of the original photos in the first link:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://notquitescilly.blogspot.com/2008/07/is-photography-worth-it-part-2a.html" target="_blank">Link numero 1</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://notquitescilly.blogspot.com/2008/07/photography-is-it-worth-it-part-2b-that.html" target="_blank">Link numero 2</a></p><p></p><p>EDIT - I guess it's worth mentioning that link 2 has a nice comparison photos of juv <strong>LTS </strong>and juv <strong>Pom</strong>. Compare structure (especially head/bill) of your bird with this pair of pics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gavin Haig, post: 1271284, member: 15000"] In 1985 a controversial skua turned up at Staines Res in W London. It was photographed, and as soon as the photos were processed (those were the days) I took them to the skin collection at Tring. At the time I noticed that juv [B]Long-tailed[/B] had a 'mottled' appearance to the head (esp. crown) whereas [B]Arctic [/B]always appeared 'streaky' This difference helped to clinch our bird as a [B]Long-tailed[/B]. I notice someone else has mentioned this feature above, and that it is apparently published too. Good. I am voting for [B]Arctic [/B]with your bird! If anyone is interested here are a couple of links to a discussion (of sorts) of said bird, with one of the original photos in the first link: [URL="http://notquitescilly.blogspot.com/2008/07/is-photography-worth-it-part-2a.html"]Link numero 1[/URL] [URL="http://notquitescilly.blogspot.com/2008/07/photography-is-it-worth-it-part-2b-that.html"]Link numero 2[/URL] EDIT - I guess it's worth mentioning that link 2 has a nice comparison photos of juv [B]LTS [/B]and juv [B]Pom[/B]. Compare structure (especially head/bill) of your bird with this pair of pics. [/QUOTE]
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