Mid Winter Gulls, Herakleion-Crete

Low numbers but good gull diversity this winter.

A candidate female heuglini:















A large heuglini, most probably a male, comparing in size with an "intermedius":














Another adult intermedius type:














Heavily moulted 2nd winter Baltic Gull:



















The next 2 birds of type intermedius look different:


























Typical michahellis:














Caspian and YLG together:















Adult Armenian:













Slender-billed Gull, a rare visitor in Crete in winter, just the 5th wintering record!:













Apart the YLG there are some difficult cases of immatures.
YLG:
















Possible Caspian 1st winter:
















Is that a heuglini?:
















Most probably a 2nd winter armenicus:














A strange bird, small as an armenicus, darker of michahellis:

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