Heuglin's Gull (L. heuglini / antelius)

(last update: 26-1-2015)

Coordinators:
Amir Ben Dov (Israel)
Chris Gibbins (Scotland)
Hannu Koskinen (Finland)
Mars Muusse (the Netherlands)

Figure 3 Taimyr Gull taimyrensis: Ringing and recovery sites.

Plate from the paper: "Taimyr Gulls: evidence for Pacific winter range, with notes on morphology and breeding", by Klaas van Dijk, Sergei Kharitonov, Holmer Vonk & Bart Ebbinge, IN: Dutch Birding 33: 9-21, 2011.

Ringing and recovery sites of Taimyr Gulls taimyrensis (red lines, see figure 2 for details, table repeated below this figure) and recovery sites of Mongolian Gulls mongolicus ringed at Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia (green lines; source: Bird Ringing Centre of Russia).

table 1 Details of long-distance ring recoveries of Taimyr Gulls taimyrensis ringed as chick (1-5) or as breeding adult (6) on Taimyr peninsula, Russia. Distances and directions based on constant geographical courses (loxodromes).
  Ring number Ringing date
Recovery date
Ringing place
Finding place and finding circumstances
1 moskwa D 435871 30 July 1977 Bikada river mouth, eastern Taimyr, Krasnoyarsk territory, Russia (74°50'N, 105°30'E)
. . 5 November 1977 Ribnovsk, Okha district, Sakhalin prov, Russia (53°15'N, 141°48'E); found dead, hit by wires, reported as gull, ring sent back; 2864 km south-east (145°)
2 radolfzell JC 35419 5 August 1994 Bird Islands, Mys Vostochny, north-western Taimyr, Krasnoyarsk territory, Russia (74°06'N, 86°25'E)
. . September 1996 Zavyalova island, Magadan prov, Russia (59°02'N, 150°34'E); dead, found beached, no species indicated, ring sent back; 3067 km east-south-east (121°)
3 radolfzell JC 35470 10 August 1994 Bird Islands, Mys Vostochny, north-western Taimyr, Krasnoyarsk territory, Russia (74°06'N, 86°25'E)
. . 28 September 1994 Adnikan river mouth, near Chegdomyn, Khabarovsk territory, Russia (51°06'N, 133°00'E); found dead, reported as gull, ring sent back; 3331 km south-east (139°)
4 stockholm 90A 16664 16 August 1994 Middendorf bay, northern Taimyr, Krasnoyarsk territory, Russia (75°58'N, 94°09'E)
. . 19 October 1994 Tit Ary along Lena river, Yakutia republic, Russia (61°15'N, 127°45'E); dead, shot, reported as 'Herring Gull', ring not sent back; 2049 km south-east (141°)
5 stockholm 9146452 16 August 1994 Middendorf bay, northern Taimyr, Krasnoyarsk territory, Russia (75°58'N, 94°09'E)
. . 16 September 1995 Grafsky Bereg village, near Lena river, Yakutia republic, Russia (62°48'N, 129°41'E); dead, shot, reported as goose, ring not sent back; 1964 km south-east (137°)
6 moskwa DS 00xxxx 25-28 June 2001 Oleni islands, Medusa bay, western Taimyr, Krasnoyarsk orange wing-tag territory, Russia (73°22'N, 80°26'E)
. . December 2001 - February 2002 near Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin province, Russia (46°52'N, 142°45'E); sight record of bird with orange wingtag, reported as 'Herring Gull'; 4228 km south-east (132°)