Herring Gull (argentatus & argenteus)

(last update: February 11, 2013)

Herring Gull (argentatus) X487 1CY-2CY, October 2016 - January 2017, IJmuiden, Scheveningen & Katwijk, the Netherlands. Picture: Maarten van Kleinwee & Mars Muusse.

Ringed as pullus on June 27 2016 at Warnemünde, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in east Germany (54.10N 12.05E).

Recoveries:
09.10.2016 - Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands (52.28N, 4.34E), Maarten van Kleinwee.
25.10.2016 - Meijendel, the Netherlands (52.08N, 4.18E).
24.11.2016 - Katwijk, the Netherlands (52.12N, 4.24E), Mars Muusse.
20.01.2017 - Scheveningen, the Netherlands (52.07N, 4.17E), Mars Muusse.
24.01.2017 - Scheveningen, the Netherlands (52.07N, 4.17E), Mars Muusse.

below: Herring Gull (argentatus) X487 2CY, January 24 2017, Scheveningen, the Netherlands. Picture: Mars Muusse.

below: Herring Gull (argentatus) X487 2CY, January 20 2017, Scheveningen, the Netherlands. Picture: Mars Muusse.

US = 100%, LS = 100%, TOTSCAPS = 100%. Flight feathers juvenile. Coverts and tertials juvenile.

below: Herring Gull (argentatus) X487 1CY, November 25 2016, Katwijk, the Netherlands. Picture: Mars Muusse.

US = 100%, LS = 75-99%, TOTSCAPS = 75-99%. Flight feathers juvenile. Coverts and tertials juvenile.

below: Herring Gull (argentatus) X487 1CY, October 10 2016, Katwijk, the Netherlands. Picture: Mars Muusse.

Scaps replaced.

Herring Gull (argentatus) X487 1CY, October 09 2016, IJmuiden, the Netherlands. Picture: Maarten van Kleinwee.

Below: probable migration route from Warnemünde harbour to the Netherlands.

below: Warnemünde harbour by night.