Gulls in central Russia

(last update: January 2015)

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Locations
1. Bolshoye Boloto
2. Sitniki
3. Cheboksarskye Vdhr
4. Karamyshevo Rybchoz
5. Obalykol Lake
6. Selitba Lake

Ringing project

Recoveries

Gull ssp, June 10 2010, Ilinka, Cheboksarskye Vdhr (Reservoir), Chuvash Republic, Russia (56°11'00.0"N 46°47'00.0"E). Picture: Grzegorz Neubauer.

Adult dark type, alarming and flying over the colony. Flying overhead, so not much to say about upperpart grey tone; however, there are bold white tips to the secondaries, but the centres seem to be pretty dark, shimmering through the tips of the underwing greater coverts (like in overhead Lesser Black-backed Gull graellsii).

Phenotypics:
P10 large mirror but separated from white tip by full subterminal band, short pale tongue on P10, ending square.
P9 small mirror, on both webs.
P5 with full subterminal band.
P4 with full subterminal band.
P3 faint spot on outerweb; 8 primaries with black.
Moult: P1 growing, P2-P10 old.
From this angle the iris looks pretty pale, but maybe is amber and clouded. Yellow(ish) legs. Red bleeding up onto upper mandible.