This juvenile/first-basic Scandinavian Herring
Gull (Larus argentatus argentatus) was photographed
in August 1995 in Baltic Germany by Ronald Klein. Ronald comments:
"Typical nominate. Colour-ringed as a chick near Dresden,
Germany). Michahellis and cachinnans breed in a
minority there, including single intergrades. This newly-founded
colony (c. 100 pairs) is far from the regular distribution of
large gulls; I believe this is one of the catalysts for intergradation.".
Note that many of the juvenile mantle/scaps have already been
replaced by first-winter feathers:
