Showing posts with label October. Show all posts
Showing posts with label October. Show all posts

Chance to identification - Oct 25

Another good gulling in Herakleion harbour this morning! But mostly immature gulls that need so much home work! All 8 birds above are shown here. The darkest one was this LBBG or Baltic juvenile type:
Two pics of a 2nd-winter Armenian:

An oily one, presumed Heuglin's:
A heavy one, is a heuglini also?:
A strange one, also most probably heuglini:
Three interesting ones:
The left, I think n Larus fuscus intermedius type:
The central, presumed as Baltic:
The right - unknown but probably a northern LBBG!:
Apart from 8 above, more good ones:
The sub-adult (3rd winter?) Armenian:
... and a 1st winter Caspian:
A LBBG, most probably intermedius with problem in feets:
and finally this beautiful one! (Baltic I suppose...):
Together only 12 birds photographed in my short visit, most gulls were in the sea around fish boats, but was an exellent day!

Oct 10 - many new Gulls

Rainy weather and the cold front from NNW brings always new good things -gulls- to Herakleion harbour!
About 3 Heuglin's - 3 LBBG of intermedius colour type - 5 Baltic - 1 Caspian - 1 most probable Armenian and one probable Steppe among several unidentifated 1st-winters and immatures and several tens of YLGs. Some of them following
A 2nd-winter Baltic:
Scandinavian LBBG with a Heuglin's:
Another Heuglin's:
A Caspian up right and a walking probable Steppe Gull:
Most probbaly a 1st-winter Armenian Gull, suggesting the same individual of the previous post:
More have to come !!

Oct, 4 / new arrivals

YLG - BG -LBBG intermedius - YLG - YLG

Presumed as 1st winter Baltic

Most probably Armenian 1st winter:
Same bird with a "fuscus type" bigger one for comparison:

1st October in Irakleio harbour

More gulls today in the harbour, few hundreds arrived to the normal dock. Windy and partly cloudy weather, north winds. Some more members of the FUSCUS complex arrived. The first adult Caspian Gull for this season also. Some pictures:

Pictures of YLGs of the eastern Mediterranean populations are uncommon and some people asked me to take as many as possible.

sub-adult YLG

YLG

two individuals looking as "classics" 1st winter YLG

2 YLGs

this one with light colour, is it a Caspian?

Above 3 pictures of a sub-adult individual. Probably heuglini or graeslli/intermedius.
Any suggestion is welcome.

No idea! but suggested as Caspian by an expert.

A YLG with deformed bill.