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Adult Western Caspian Gull (Larus cachinnans ponticus), photographed by Martin Reid in Bahrain, early March 1999. Note the much more rounded, demure (almost Iceland Gull-like) head of this female. The underside of P10 reveals the classic pattern for ponticus:
On this last image note that the raised wing-tip of the hidden preening bird on the left (behind a barabensis) looks to be a nominate cachinnans or an extreme barabensis: