Herring Gull- Zilvermeeuw (argentatus & argenteus)

(last update: December 15, 2011 )

Herring Gull (argentatus) HX393 3CY, January 31 2014, Barneveld, the Netherlands. Picture: Frank van der Meer.

Ringed as pullus on June 20 2012 at Kiel, N Germany. Transition zone between British argenteus and Scandinavian argentatus.

About half of the scaps greyish. No partial autumn moult. Base of bill pale, brown iris.