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Stashing behaviour in a Herring Gull

01 April 2020 Comments Notes ...

Urban Gulls

01 May 2019 Comments Main paper ...

Hybrid gulls in Belgium – an update

01 September 2012 Comments Main paper Abstract ...

Species boundaries in the Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gull complex

01 July 2008 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT The BOURC Taxonomic Sub-committee (TSC) recently published recommendations for the taxonomy of the Herring Gull and Lesser Black-backed Gull complex (Sangster et al. 2007). Six species were recognised: Herring Gull Larus argentatus, L...

Urban gulls

01 July 2005 Comments Main paper ...

Monthly marathon

01 February 2003 Comments Other I think most people will recognise the slim, brownish passerine with heavily streaked underparts in photograph 193 (Brit. Birds 95: plate 322, repeated here as plate 58) as some kind of pipit Anthus. That much is easy, but pipits are one group...

Genetic relationships among the different races of Herring Gull, Yellow-legged Gull and Lesser Black-backed Gull

01 November 2001 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Genetic analyses of the relationships among different forms of Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus, Herring Gull L. argentatus and Yellow-legged Gull L. cachinnans are beset with difficulties, associated with appar...

Status of the form barabensis within the ‘Larus argentatus–cachinnans–fuscus complex”

01 May 2000 Comments Main paper ABSTRACT Between 19th July and 1st August 1997, at the Chany Lakes in southwestern Siberia, data were collected on phenotype features and behaviour of the local populations of gulls Larus belonging to the taxonomically vague form barabensis.These were ...

Monthly Marathon

01 May 1997 Comments Other The members of the tideline gang (plate 7), photographed by Richard T. Mills in Co. Cork in September 1975, were correcdy identified as Common Redshanks Tringa totanus, Oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus, Black-headed Gulls Larus ridibundus and a Bla...