Scottish Baltic Gull?

[Martin Scott]

A friend on Tiree asked me to post a pic on the Discussion Gallery of a 'black backed gull' on Tiree

He comments:

"A small very dark-backed LBB Gull with oddly long wings - reminiscent of Baltic Gull (standard graellsii adults also present)"

Feel free to throw in your tuppence-worth and comment also!

Martin

[admin]

Here's the link to the gallery and photo (http://www.surfbirds.com/cgi-bin/gallery/display.cgi?gallery=gallery28)
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herb scales (http://www.vaporshop.com/scales)

[Harry Hussey]

Looks a bit pale for fuscus to me, perhaps a small female intermedius?

[Fernando Arce]

Looks a bit pale for fuscus to me, perhaps a small female intermedius?
I agree. most surely it´s a slender intermedius bird rather than a baltic fuscus fuscus.

[JanJ]

I agree. most surely it´s a slender intermedius bird rather than a baltic fuscus fuscus.


Judging from the upperpart tone - if this now is correct - Baltic seems not a good option. I would agree with Harry and Fernando to graellsii/intermedius.
Would be interesting to see some more images!

JanJ