Gulls in central Russia
(last update: January 2015)
Grzegorz Neubauer (Poland)
Sasha Esergepov (Russia)
Gull ssp, June 10 2010, Ilinka, Cheboksarskye Vdhr (Reservoir), Chuvash Republic, Russia (56°11'00.0"N 46°47'00.0"E). Picture: Grzegorz Neubauer.
Adult cachinnans type, alarming and flying over the colony.
Phenotypics:
P10 large mirror just connected to white tip by broken subterminal band, long pale tongue on P10, ending square like in typical cachinnans.
P9 large mirror on both webs, reaching both inner and outer edge of feather.
P5 with full subterminal band.
P4 missing.
Moult: P1-P2 growing, P3-P4 missing, P5-P10 old.
On P6-P10 the black medial band curves back upwards along the inner edges. From this angle the iris looks yellow with speckling. Orbital ring seems to be red. Bill has no red on upper mandible. Yellow(ish) legs.
