BirdForum is the net's largest birding community dedicated to wild birds and birding, and is absolutely FREE!

Register for an account to take part in lively discussions in the forum, post your pictures in the gallery and more.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="deborah4" data-source="post: 1409089" data-attributes="member: 29880">No don't think so Nick, perhaps my way of describing the differences are not the way you would describe them.  You've taken one word from my whole post and pulled that out ... my point was that gizz is a combination of features, all of which give the overall impression.   Yes, more similar to CG, and saying they are 'overall' more 'roundish' and more like a CG, is what i was trying to explain with regard to the 'compact' shape .. in other words cf. with the more triangular shape of the larger WWs and HGs.   As far as all the other features I mentioned, they stand as accurate without having to repeat them all and as I said, for me, make up the overall gizz of head structure ... hopefully the pics explain visually what obviously I had difficulty in getting across verbally and also show that even with a ''flattened forehead'' posture, it's still very much an Iceland on head shape!  Sorry about the poor quality - heavy crops from a distance and I'm not a photographer.Incidently, the majority of Icelands we see here are females .... perhaps you've noted the differences in structure between the two sexes and can enlighten us? (a rhetorical question!!)Anyway, my initial point of posting was that it is not so expedient for learning that the observations of someone very experienced should be so easily dismissed out of hand.  Well, that would be my approach to learning more about identification of gulls anyway.</blockquote>

Verification