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06: Yellow-legged Gull michahellis 3cy, August 25 2001, Le Portel,
France (50.42N,1.34E).
Note the primary moult stage: P10 is old
second generation and P6 full-grown. This individual has nearly finished
the complete moult in the wing-coverts, as the gaps in the greater coverts
bar (normally greater coverts #7-#8) are fully grown, but the last lesser
coverts in the carpal edge and the upper row have not been replaced yet.
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