Wonder if anyone can help? At the weekend I went to Lake Tuchewop in Victoria to look for the Long-billed Dowitcher and arrived at the southern end of the lake on Saturday evening just before it got dark. Whilst searching for the wader I noticed an immature gull with a classic non-breeding head-pattern as a Black-headed Gull, (two small dark-patches) however the other birders present assured me that it was just a juvenile Silver Gull (….and it probably was!) I then realised that I’ve hardly bothered to look at juvenile Silver Gulls and never seen this feature in the past. Does anyone have imagery (or know of some web-links) of juvenile Silver Gull which show head-markings? All the ones that I’ve checked so far don’t show any. Any assistance gratefully received, Tom — ******************************** Tom Tarrant Hawthorn East 3123 Victoria http://www.aviceda.org ********************************
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Hi all, Re my reply below, I only meant to reply to Tom, but must’ve hit reply all. Apologies for that
Cheers, Tim ________________________________________ Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 10:31 AM Hi Tom, Here’s an image of one: see https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdehoot/2855583584/in/photostream. Also, I saw you at James M’s talk, and I meant to say hello – I don’t think we’ve had a chance to chat. I was half thinking I’d see you at Lake Tutchewop on Sunday. I ticked the bird Saturday evening. On Sunday morning I went birding around Goschen and Tresco, and then briefly went back to Lake Tutchewop, where I’d heard you’d seen the bird (well done). Must catch up for some birding sometime. Any targets? Cheers mate, Tim ________________________________________ Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 8:31 AM Wonder if anyone can help? At the weekend I went to Lake Tuchewop in Victoria to look for the Long-billed Dowitcher and arrived at the southern end of the lake on Saturday evening just before it got dark. Whilst searching for the wader I noticed an immature gull with a classic non-breeding head-pattern as a Black-headed Gull, (two small dark-patches) however the other birders present assured me that it was just a juvenile Silver Gull (….and it probably was!) I then realised that I’ve hardly bothered to look at juvenile Silver Gulls and never seen this feature in the past. Does anyone have imagery (or know of some web-links) of juvenile Silver Gull which show head-markings? All the ones that I’ve checked so far don’t show any. Any assistance gratefully received, Tom — ******************************** Tom Tarrant Hawthorn East 3123 Victoria http://www.aviceda.org ********************************
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Hi Tom, Here’s an image of one: see https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdehoot/2855583584/in/photostream. Also, I saw you at James M’s talk, and I meant to say hello – I don’t think we’ve had a chance to chat. I was half thinking I’d see you at Lake Tutchewop on Sunday. I ticked the bird Saturday evening. On Sunday morning I went birding around Goschen and Tresco, and then briefly went back to Lake Tutchewop, where I’d heard you’d seen the bird (well done). Must catch up for some birding sometime. Any targets? Cheers mate, Tim ________________________________________ Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 8:31 AM Wonder if anyone can help? At the weekend I went to Lake Tuchewop in Victoria to look for the Long-billed Dowitcher and arrived at the southern end of the lake on Saturday evening just before it got dark. Whilst searching for the wader I noticed an immature gull with a classic non-breeding head-pattern as a Black-headed Gull, (two small dark-patches) however the other birders present assured me that it was just a juvenile Silver Gull (….and it probably was!) I then realised that I’ve hardly bothered to look at juvenile Silver Gulls and never seen this feature in the past. Does anyone have imagery (or know of some web-links) of juvenile Silver Gull which show head-markings? All the ones that I’ve checked so far don’t show any. Any assistance gratefully received, Tom — ******************************** Tom Tarrant Hawthorn East 3123 Victoria http://www.aviceda.org ********************************
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hey Tom, I haven’t got any images showing this nor have I seen any on-line. But yes I have noticed it before in the field in very young birds, especially up here. Due to being rather diligent in checking all marked birds closely for any vagrants, I’ve seen this a number of times in juv Silver Gulls… cheers, martin cachard, cairns
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