glaucoides & kumlieni

(last update: October 12, 2011)

Coordinators:
Dave Brown (Canada)
Bruce Mactavish (Canada)
Chris Gibbins (Scotland)
Peter Adriaens (Belgium)
Mars Muusse (Netherlands)

Iceland & Kumlien's Gull PDF's

 

AERC TAC 2003 PDF. AERC TAC's taxonomic recommendations. Selected text on thayeri - kumlieni: HERE.

 

ICELAND AND KUMLIEN’S GULLS PHOTO GUIDE

Peter Adriaens

Birdwatch April 2012
(238: 41-47)

Gaston, A. J. & Decker, R. (1985). PDF
Interbreeding of Thayer's gull Larus thayeri and Kumlien's gull Larus glaucoides kumlieni on Southampton Island, Northwest Territories.
Can. Field-Nat. 99: 257-259.

 

Gay, Laurène, Bell, Douglas A, Crochet, Pierre-André, 2005. PDF
ADDITIONAL DATA ON MITOCHONDRIAL DNA OF NORTH AMERICAN LARGE GULL TAXA.
The Auk, 122: 684-688.

 

Hybridization and changes in the distribution of Iceland gulls (Larus glaucoides/ kumlieni/ thayeri)

D. N. Weir, A.C. Kitchener & R. Y. McGowan

IN: J. Zool., Lond. (2000) 252, 517-530.

 

Boertmann, D. 2001. The Iceland Gull complex in Greenland. British Birds 94: 546-548. PDF

 

Scoring sheet for iris pigmentation and wing-tip melanism.
Large version (4,8 MB) can be downloaded from here.