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        photo 7234: Yellow-legged Gull michahellis 3cy, August
      08 2003, Le Portel,
      France (50.42N,1.34E). 
      Note the primary moult stage: P8-10 are old
      third generation (with the mirror on P10 just visible from below in the
      far wing) and P5 full-grown. P5 now exceeds the primaries, mostly because
      of the very abraded stage of the second and third tertials. Tertial #1 has
      been replaced recently. This individual also started the complete moult in the wing-coverts,
      with the outer medians and inner greaters replaced and a gaps in the outer
      greater coverts
      bar. Note the brown secondaries, now visible. 
        
        
       
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