glaucoides - kumlieni

(last update: January 26, 2012)
Coordinators:
Dave Brown (Canada)
Bruce Mactavish (Canada)
Chris Gibbins (Scotland)
Peter Adriaens (Belgium)
Mars Muusse (Netherlands)

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Iceland Gull (kumlieni) L0 1st - 4th cycle (2CY-4CY), March 2015 & November 2015 - November 2017, Quidi Vidi Lake, St. John's, Newfoundland. Picture: Lancy Cheng & Frank King.

Yellow L0 and metal Fed band 1106-22882, probably banded on February 18 2015, in St. John's, Newfoundland (LAT: 47.80833; LON: -52.80833). Hatch year HY2014.

below: Iceland Gull (kumlieni) L0 4th cycle (4CY), November 14 2017, Quidi Vidi Lake, St. John's, Newfoundland. Picture: Lancy Cheng.

Great to see this bird back again.
As 1st cycle, it was a rather white-plumages individual, also on the outer primaries. This year's appearance is quite classic, with an obvious grey tone on outer primaries, being darker than the upperparts. Full band on P6 and overall adult-like, also in bare parts coloration.

below: Iceland Gull (kumlieni) L0 3rd cycle (3CY), December 22 2016, Quidi Vidi Lake, St. John's, Newfoundland. Picture: Lancy Cheng.

Pattern on primaries just ill-defined, close to a so-called "ghost-pattern".

below: Iceland Gull (kumlieni) L0 3rd cycle (3CY), December 15 2016, Quidi Vidi Lake, St. John's, Newfoundland. Picture: Lancy Cheng.

Bird developed large mirror on P9 and P10 on 3rd gen outer primaries. Honey-coloured iris. Some pigmnet on P5.

below: Iceland Gull (kumlieni) L0 2nd cycle (3CY), February 12 2016, Quidi Vidi Lake, St. John's, Newfoundland. Picture: Lancy Cheng.

When compared to early winter (November 2015), now a few new grey scaps appear on the back.

below: Iceland Gull (kumlieni) L0 2nd cycle (3CY), January 30 2016, Quidi Vidi Lake, St. John's, Newfoundland. Picture: Frank King.

Frank's photostream on Flickr.

below: Iceland Gull (kumlieni) L0 2nd cycle (3CY), January 14 2016, Quidi Vidi Lake, St. John's, Newfoundland. Picture: Frank King.

2nd gen flight feathers, tertials and wing-coverts. Bi-coloured bill. Slightly overexposed picture, but median and greater coverts appear all-white.

below: Iceland Gull (kumlieni) L0 2nd cycle (2CY), December 18 2015, Quidi Vidi Lake, St. John's, Newfoundland. Picture: Frank King.

Frank's photostream on Flickr.

2nd gen flight feathers, tertials and wing-coverts. Bi-coloured bill.

below: Iceland Gull (kumlieni) L0 2nd cycle (2CY), November 30 2015, Quidi Vidi Lake, St. John's, Newfoundland. Picture: Lancy Cheng.

Darker markings on all 5 of the visible outer primaries. Few grey scaps moulted in. Bill colour and pattern about equal to the pattern it showed 9 months ago.

below: Iceland Gull (kumlieni) L0 1st cycle (2CY), March 07 2015, Quidi Vidi Lake, St. John's, Newfoundland. Picture: Lancy Cheng.

Bird with obvious brown washed broad tail band, but otherwise very pale and showing snowy white outer primaries. It is hoped for that such white birds like this will be banded more often in future and of course it is very interesting to follow this individual over the years to see how the pigmentation in the outer primaries will develop and if there will be any correlation between this white plumage in 1st cycle and extent of grey in the primaries.