Herring Gull (argentatus & argenteus)

(last update: February 11, 2013)

Herring Gull (argentatus) KH33 2CY, April 13 2009, Koksijde, Belgium. Picture: Peter Adriaens. 

Russian bird with on the left tarsus a white colour-ring KH33 and a metal ring Moskwa ES-14xxx. Hatch year 2008, along the coast of the White Sea in the Kandalaksha Nature Reserve (67.15N,32.30E), Murmansk District, Russia in a project of Vitaly Bianki.

Lower scaps still juvenile. With 1st cycle cachinnans.