UNIDENTIFIED GULLS - EURO-HERG-like (argentatus & argenteus):
- January 22 , 2016 - an adult presumed American Herring Gull with a very unusual primary pattern for smithsonianus - from Brownsville, Texas;
- January 26 , 2014 - these 3rd/4th-cycle Euro HERGs from Great Britain have fairly distinct black marks in the tertials and primary coverts;
- January 26 , 2014 - a second-cycle Euro HERG from Great Britain that has a strong "smith shawl" ;
- January 26 , 2014 - a few second-cycle Euro HERGs from Great Britain that have fairly good "smith shawls" ;
- January 26 , 2014 - a first- and second-cycle Euro HERGs from Great Britain that have a fairly good "smith shawl";
- January 02 , 2014 - a first-cycle smith HERG from Texas that lacks the "smith shawl";
- January 02 , 2014 - a third-cycle type smith HERG from Texas that lacks the "smith shawl";
- March 02, 2010 - a first-cycle gull that seems in-between YLGU and argentatus!? - from Florida in late January;
- March 02, 2010 - a first-cycle HERG-type gull that looks more like an Old World type - from Florida in late January;
- March 02, 2010 - a first-cycle HERG-type that has an "Old World rear end" - from Texas in December;
- March 04 , 2009 - a pair of 2nd-cycle HERGs from Chicago and Scotland - they look like they've swapped continents....
- Feb 27 , 2008 - A HERG-type with way too much white in the tail for a pure smithsonianus...
- Jan 25, 2008 - An adult Herring Gull-type from England that looks (to me) too dark for argentatus - ?
- Jan 14, 2008 - added eight adult-type AM. HERGs with argentatus/cachinanns-like wing tips.
- Jan 08, 2008 - found more images of this vegae/argentatus-type first-cycle Gull from March 2005 (from two weeks earlier) that reveal more critical detail- click HERE
- Jan 07, 2007 - Another first-cycle gull from Houston area that looks more like Vega or an Old World form;
- Dec 23 , 2006 - A first-cycle gull from Houston area that looks more like an Old World form;
- April 02 , 2006 - A third-cycle dark-mantled HERG-type from near Galveston - look at the primary pattern;
- April 02 , 2006 - Another first-cycle gull from Corpus Christi- it's very large and pale; a weird GBBG or hybrid thereof?;
- Jan 26, 2006 - A striking first-cycle Vega-type Herring Gull from Galveston; check out that tail!;
- Dec 16, 2005 -
a first-cycle HERG-type that looks like an Old World form - probably Vega Gull;
- Nov 18, 2005 - a first-cycle HERG-type that looks like an Old World form...
- Apr 20, 2005
- pics of a first-basic gull that
suggests Vega - check out the tail and the molt.... from
Corpus Christi;
- Mar 30, 2005 -Three more
recent first-basic gulls from Corpus Christi that show characteristics
of Vega or European Herring Gull - click HERE (updated Jan '08),
HERE,and HERE;
- Feb 17, 2005
- another first-basic gull with
the characteristics of Vega Gull from Corpus Christi;
- Feb 17, 2005
- a first-basic gull with characteristics
most like "British" Herring Gull from Corpus Christi;
- Feb 17, 2005
- a darkish-mantled adult-basic/alternate
Herring Gull from Corpus Christi;
- Jan 22, 2005
- from last Spring, another first-basic
gull with very strong suggestions of Atlantic YLGU from Corpus
Christi;
- Jan 18, 2005
- a first-basic gull with the
characteristics of Vega Gull from Corpus Christi - the tail
looks like that of an Old World form;
- Jan 18, 2005
- another first-basic gull with
the characteristics of Vega Gull from Corpus Christi;
- Mar 14, 2004 - added pics of
one very vegae-like first-winter large gull from Corpus Christi on March 04;
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- Dec 30, 2003 - added a first-winter
HERG suggesting vegae from Fort Worth;
- Mar 08, 2003 - added three
gulls by Norman Van Swelm on which he seeks feedback about
their identity.
- Feb 05, 2003 - added a first-winter
suggesting vegae from Fort Worth;
- Feb 02, 2003 - added a first-winter
HERG-type with a hint of LBBG characters from Fort Worth;
- Jan 25, 2003 - added a vegae-like
first-winter from Fort Worth.
- January 17, 2002 - re-added
all 8 photos of the March 1998 mystery
gull.
- March 20, 2000: Here are three
gulls (one, two,
three) all found in the Netherlands
in December 1999 - any opinions on them?
- March 8, 2000: a most intriguing
darker-mantled gull from Texas in
February, with lots of helpful feedback from those with experience
of the Eurasian forms.
- March 7: a bird showing the characteristics of Vega
Gull, from Texas.
- Added the last of Ted Lee Eubanks' smithsonianus
from Texas, showing some interesting variations.
- Is there a new form of gull lurking on Texas beaches? take
a look at the Reese's Herring Gull
(Larus argentatus chocolatianus).
- I've added another argentatus-like
bird from Texas.
- an adult presumed smithonianus
from Texas that seems to have a strikingly michahellis-like
structure and primaries (but does not have yellow legs).
- here is a Cautionary Tail to
test you.
- this bird really does look like an argenteus
Herring Gull - but it's in Galveston!
- could this be an argentatus Herring
Gull from Texas (March 16, 1999)?