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 adult, May 18 2010, Obalykol Lake (ozero Obalykol), Orenburg Oblast, Russia (50°56'19.0"N 60°43'31.0"E). Picture: Grzegorz Neubauer.

Adult flying over the colony. Cachinnans type.

Phenotypics:
P10 mirror merged with white tip (small black spots on P10), long tongue on P10 ending rectangular (pretty classic cachinnans pattern).
P9 mirror on both webs.
P5 with full subterminal band.
P4 black on outerweb.
Moult: P1-P10 old.
Red spot only on lower mandible, no black on bill, dark iris. Yellow legs.