Herring Gull (argentatus & argenteus)

(last update: February 11, 2013)

Herring Gull argentatus KJEC7 3CY, October 20 2007, Tampere dump, Finland. Picture: Visa Rauste.

Yellow ring, pullus from 2005 from Karelia province, N Russia. Scaps grey. Several coverts and upper tertial replaced in partial moult. Inner primaries greyish, central primaries with blackish subterminal bands. Note mirror on P10. Right wing P9 growing late, with distinct mirror.