Sorry - Another gull ID please

Jason Green · #1 (**permalink**) 27-11-2007, 12:36 PM

Sorry, I know I ask for a lot of gull IDs,

but this seems different. The beak is at 75% black, the tail feathers are pure white and fanned, the wings are white on the trailing edge and greyall over, then black towards the end cappped with a white patch. The head is heavily streaked.

It's probably a common, but it may be a new one for me.

Thanks

Gill Catton · #2 (**permalink**) 27-11-2007, 01:08 PM

my thought was common gull....

but gulls are not my strong point!

MagpieMick · #3 (**permalink**) 27-11-2007, 02:18 PM

Common Gull for me too.

Lance Morgan · #4 (**permalink**) 27-11-2007, 02:24 PM

This is a young common first winter. probably take in january.

andy68 · #5 (**permalink**) 27-11-2007, 02:46 PM

It is a Common Gull, but it's a second-winter, not a first-winter, which would have a black tail band and still have its juvenile wings (more dark coverts, black secondary bar etc).

Andy

aeshna5 · #6 (**permalink**) 27-11-2007, 04:35 PM

Agree with Andy it's a 2nd W Common gull.

Lance Morgan · #7 (**permalink**) 27-11-2007, 04:57 PM

OK But what month then?

big bill · #8 (**permalink**) 27-11-2007, 06:39 PM

Agree with Andy and aeshna we get a lot of them nesting on the flat roofs around the town and in between the chimney breasts its a pain at times especially at nesting times when they have just hatched you get dive bombed by the parents and there have been some nasty cuts to the locals heads through these attacks