glaucoides & kumlieni

(last update: October 12, 2011)
Coordinators:
Dave Brown (Canada)
Bruce Mactavish (Canada)
Chris Gibbins (Scotland)
Peter Adriaens (Belgium)
Mars Muusse (Netherlands)

PDF's
Iris classification
Primary classification

1cy Aug - Dec

2cy Jan - Febr
2cy Mar - Apr
2cy summer
2cy Sept - Dec

3cy Jan - Febr
3cy Mar - Apr
3cy summer
3cy Sept - Dec

sub-ad Jan - Apr
sub-ad summer
sub-ad Sept - Dec

adult Jan - Febr
adult Mar - Apr
adult summer
adult Sept - Dec

Iceland & Kumlien's Gull PDF's

 

AERC TAC 2003 PDF. AERC TAC's taxonomic recommendations. Selected text on thayeri - kumlieni: HERE.

 

Gaston, A. J. & Decker, R. (1985). PDF
Interbreeding of Thayer's gull Larus thayeri and Kumlien's gull Larus glaucoides kumlieni on Southampton Island, Northwest Territories.
Can. Field-Nat. 99: 257-259.

 

Gay, Laurène, Bell, Douglas A, Crochet, Pierre-André, 2005. PDF
ADDITIONAL DATA ON MITOCHONDRIAL DNA OF NORTH AMERICAN LARGE GULL TAXA.
The Auk, 122: 684-688.

 

Boertmann, D. 2001. The Iceland Gull complex in Greenland. British Birds 94: 546-548. PDF

 

Scoring sheet for iris pigmentation and wing-tip melanism.
Large version (4,8 MB) can be downloaded from here.