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Yes, bill is thicker and redder. Also the grey looks cleaner, more 'silvery', in comparison. To my mind there is no smarter gull, especially when they have their jet-black heads in breeding plumage.A gull I've never seen. He's pretty. Has the same kind of build as a black-headed gull. Bill is bigger though.
Hold on. I did see them! Right here, in the city. I was confused by the name "Mediterranean gull"! In Dutch this bird is called Black-headed gull (zwartkopmeeuw) whereas what in English is called a black-headed gull, in Dutch is known as kokmeeuw (I wouldn't know what the English equivalent of "kok" is). It's confusing!Yes, bill is thicker and redder. Also the grey looks cleaner, more 'silvery', in comparison. To my mind there is no smarter gull, especially when they have their jet-black heads in breeding plumage.
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Apart from the brighter, thicker bill (which looks droop-tipped), in winter plumage the Mediterranean Gull has a smudge behind the eye rather than the Black-headed Gull's spot. In breeding plumage Black-headed Gull has a chocolate-brown head, but Mediterranean Gull's head is genuinely black and that black reaches further down the hindneck. Also the adult Mediterranean Gull has pure white wing tips without any black. Mediterranean Gull's wing-tips are less pointed too.I thought it was a black-headed gull (kokmeeuw). He looks just like it! How can you tell the difference?
Nice angle!I bought a R7 and returned it. I did get a few very nice gull shots with it though, like this one. Lesser black-backed gull.
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Strange as it seems, I shoot gulls most always out of my apartment on the third floor. It's a perfect position to shoot them as they are eye level and that gives me some nice angles.Nice angle!
It's banded! Will you send it in?Audouin's Gull
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It's an old holiday photo and, no, I didn't. Very lazy of me, I know.It's banded! Will you send it in?
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