Lesser Black-backed Gull (graellsii & intermedius)

(last update: 8-2-2011)

L. f. graellsii 2cy 359N September 16 2007, Landfill VRSU de Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, Spain. Picture: Delfín González.

2cy graellsii ringed in Calais, NW France, on 01 July 2006. Has spent most of the first summer in Spain, but returned to Calais in 2nd summer in 2008. In winter only recorded near Madrid, on many occasions.

Complete moult still in full swing, with P8 fullyu grown. Bird with grey-brown scapulars region and starting the partial autumn moult in upper tertials, inner gc and inner llc, several random lc, and most of the visible mc (central mc growing and missing).