
	Where results make sense

Topic: Caspian gull

Related Topics

Gull

American Herring Gull

Iceland Gull

Glaucous Gull

Mediterranean Gull

Western Gull

Common Gull

Little Gull

Silver Gull

Pacific Gull

Kelp Gull

Kittiwake

Sternidae

Charadriiformes

Seabird

	Caspian Gulls
		Caspian Gull is a name applied to the gull taxon Larus (argentatus) cachinnans, a member of the Herring Gull/Lesser Black-backed Gull complex.
		The Steppe Gull or Baraba Gull (Larus (cachinnans) barabensis) may be regarded as a subspecies of the Caspian Gull or as a separate species.
		The Mongolian Gull (Larus (vegae/cachinnans) mongolicus) may be classed as a subspecies of the Caspian Gull, a subspecies of the East Siberian Gull or as a species in its own right.
	www.avianweb.com /caspiangulls.html (546 words)

	Identification of Caspian Gull
		Caspian Gulls have a long gape line extending horizontally to almost below the front edge of the eye, and the edge of the gape may be visibly reddish.
		Caspian Gull in first-year plumage shows a lot of grey in the feathers of the mantle and scapulars, usually with narrow dark-shaft streaks and a brown sub-terminal crescent, forming an anchor mark.
		Gulls are best viewed in profile and a slight breeze will cause resting gulls to orient themselves to face into the wind, both on land and on water, allowing the majority of birds to be viewed at the same angle and reducing the amount of light-dependent variation.
	www.berksbirds.co.uk /articles/caspiangullid.asp (5302 words)

	Yellow-legged Gulls
		The Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) is a large gull of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
		However, recent DNA research has shown that Caspian Gull is basal to the complex, and cannot be in the same grouping as the other form.
		These are omnivores like most Larus gulls, and they will scavenge on rubbish tips and elsewhere, as well as seeking suitable small prey in fields or on the coast, or robbing plovers or lapwings of their catches.
	www.avianweb.com /yellowleggedgulls.html (680 words)

	Caspian Gull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Caspian Gull is a name applied to the gull taxon Larus (argentatus) cachinnans, a member of the Herring Gull/Lesser Black-backed Gull complex.
		The Steppe Gull or Baraba Gull (Larus (cachinnans) barabensis) may be regarded as a subspecies of the Caspian Gull or as a separate species.
		The Mongolian Gull (Larus (vegae/cachinnans) mongolicus) may be classed as a subspecies of the Caspian Gull, a subspecies of the East Siberian Gull or as a species in its own right.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caspian_Gull (565 words)

	Caspian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Caspian region, the loosely-defined area surrounding the Caspian Sea
		Caspian X or Prince Caspian, a fictional character in the Chronicles of Narnia series by C. Lewis
		Caspian Sea Monster, the name applied by U.S. Intelligence to large Soviet wing-in-ground effect vehicles based in the Caspian Sea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caspian (154 words)

	Gulls at the Tip
		Depending on what you read, Caspian Gull (or Pontic Gull) is considered to be either a valid species, the nominate race of Yellow-legged Gull or simply another taxa within the Herring Gull complex.
		Much easier to study are the gulls which gather on the adjacent tidal section of the River Lune at low tide to bathe in the river and loaf on the nearby mud.
		Lesser Black-backed Gulls with either a fl ring + yellow code (R, T or W / number / letter / letter) or a green ring + white letter (R, T or W) on their left leg (and a BTO ring on their right leg) should be reported to Dave Sowter.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /ldbws/winter99/tipgulls.htm (2231 words)

	Iran Daily - Economic Focus - 11/26/06
		The Caspian Sea is bordered by Iran (Gilan, Mazandaran and Golestan provinces), Russia (Dagestan, Kalmykia, Astrakhan Oblast), Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan (Balkan province) and Kazakhstan, with the Central Asian steppes to the north and east.
		A key problem is the status of the Caspian Sea and the establishment of the water boundaries among the five littoral countries.
		Legal trade in the fl fish eggs from the Caspian Sea is estimated to be worth $100 million per year, but the illegal catch in the four former Soviet republics is believed to be 10 to 12 times higher.
	www.iran-daily.com /1385/2717/html/focus.htm (1390 words)

	Weeks Bay - Gulls Photo Album (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Almost as big as a gull, the Caspian Tern is the largest of the tern family and is fairly common all year on the Gulf Coast where it breeds.
		Laughing gulls are common, permanent, breeding residents on the Alabama Gulf Coast.
		Ring-billed Gulls occur on the Alabama Gulf Coast every month of the year, but the species is uncommon to rare after the first of May. Fall migrants appear in numbers in October, and from then until spring the species is common to fairly common, particularly along the larger rivers on the coast.
	www.weeksbay.org /GullsPhotos.html (638 words)

	Port of Oakland - Community
		This gull is similar to the California gull, but has white eyes and pink legs and feet.
		This is a small gull, about 16 inches long, with a white head, a short yellow bill, white spots on fl wingtips and yellow legs and feet.
		The Caspian gull, with a length of 14 inches, is the most common tern on the Bay during the spring nesting season and the summer.
	www.portofoakland.com /communit/public_60.asp (702 words)

	Apparent 1stw Caspian Gull
		and scanned the gulls present on the water from the JJB car park on the east side of the reservoir.
		Caspian Gull our mission this winter and it was exciting to have such an excellent candidate in view.
		Iceland Gull distantly to the south and this bird soon circled away towards the coast.
	www.eastlancsbirding.co.uk /main/CaspianGull2CYFishmoorResFeb05.htm (1231 words)

	BirdForum - 1st winter Caspian Gull?
		Assuming that it is a Caspian, of course.
		As mentioned, it appears to be a Caspian Gull (we actually dont see the bill well enough) and a 2cy, which at this time of year would has completed it´s first complete moult in to 2nd winter, body, and all wing coverts, tertials and primaries renewed second generation.
		I have always thought that the Dartford area should be good for Caspian Gulls as we have the rubbish tip across the river at Rainham in Essex for starters and Yellow Legged Gulls have reached triple figures along this stretch of the Thames.
	www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?t=73803 (2210 words)

	sociology - Gull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Gulls are seabirds in the family Laridae and subfamily Lari.
		They are in general medium to large birds, typically grey or white, often with fl markings on the head or wings.
		Apart from the kittiwakes, gulls are typically coastal or inland species, rarely venturing far out to sea.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Gull (142 words)

	All About Birds
		As large as a big gull, the Caspian Tern is the largest tern in the world.
		Average life span of Great Lakes Caspian Terns is estimated to be 12 years.
		The Caspian Tern aggressively defends its breeding colony.
	www.birds.cornell.edu /AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Caspian_Tern.html (326 words)

	News Page
		At Poolsbrook CP 1stW Iceland Gull and 2 Yellow-legged Gull this afternoon.
		At Poolsbrook CP 1stW Iceland Gull, 1stW Glaucous Gull and 1stW Yellow-legged Gull this afternoon.
		Late news from yesterday an unconfirmed report of an adult Night Heron on the River Dove by the bridge upstream of the weir c350 yds upstream of Mill Dale in the late morning SK 146552.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /tracy.mann/News.htm (1980 words)

	Darren Naish: Tetrapod Zoology: No no no no NO: the Herring gull is NOT a ring species!
		The Aralo-Caspian gull regarded by Mayr (1942) as the ancestral Herring gull population is the Caspian or Steppe gull L.
		Yellow-legged gulls [image at left] were not closest to Caspian gulls, but instead seem to have descended from a North Atlantic ancestral population.
		It is not at all surprising that the systematics of the large white-headed gulls are confusing.
	darrennaish.blogspot.com /2006/02/no-no-no-no-no-herring-gull-is-not.html (1617 words)

	Ornithos - Caspian Gull Larus cachinnans in France : status and identification
		In autumn, the main arrival of Caspian Gulls occurs from mid-November to early December.
		In particular the adult Herring Gull in late winter (with full summer plumage), and especially the ''yellow-legged'' form from the Baltic area, is a real pitfall with adult Caspian Gull in ''summer'' plumage.
		The same is true for older birds and some 4th cy Yellow-legged Gulls with a very late moult phase are very similar to younger Caspian Gulls.
	www.eurobirding.com /birdingmagazines/artinfo.php?id=9024 (573 words)

	Birds Korea - Steppe Gull barabensis in South Korea
		Barabensis is the name given to the dark-saddled, often (but not invariably) yellow-legged adult gulls that occur geographically between heuglini to the north, cachinnans to the west, and mongolicus to the east.
		Mongolian Gull is believed to be the only member of the Herring Gull Assemblage to be at all regular in Korea in the summer months (May-early September), and up to the present, extreme dates of darker-mantled, yellow-legged individuals of this Assemblage (i.e.
		Juvenile and First-winter barabensis are also considered by “Gulls” very close in appearance to Juvenile and First-winter heuglini and cachinnans, and thus should be relatively easy to separate from both smithsonianus and vegae at this age on a range of features (for further information, please refer both to “Gulls” and to: http://www.birdskorea.org/lwhgid.asp).
	www.birdskorea.org /barabensis.asp (4993 words)

	The Norwegian Gull-page
		The first Caspian Gull for Hordaland county in western Norway was observed for a short period yesterday afternoon.
		The feather appearance may fit a first-summer Heuglin's Gull, while the primary moult progression seems to be in favour of Baltic gull.
		The California Gull was photographed in Massachusetts, USA in April and May 2005.
	cyberbirding.uib.no /gull (716 words)

	Birds Korea - conserving birds and habitats in South Korea and the Yellow Sea eco-region
		The authors studied the mitochondrial DNA variation of 21 large gull taxa in an attempt to reconstruct their evolutionary history.
		Whilst WBKE was aware that Mongolian Gull was genetically closer to the Pacific gulls than to west Asian taxa, its relationship to L.
		Confidence in criteria for the identification in north-east Asia of immature American Herring Gull L. smithsonianus is somewhat undermined by the discovery that it is close genetically to Vega Gull L. vegae, and that the two taxa are liable to appear closer to each other in the field than is often presently appreciated.
	www.birdskorea.org /dnagullstudy.asp (435 words)

	The Norwegian Gull-page
		A flightshot of a normal juvenile Mew Gull, moulting to first winter, from September this year is here.
		The first winter Caspian Gull that was only seen briefly in Oestfold county in December 2003 was relocated some days ago, and four excellent new shots of this Norwegian rarity can be seen here.
		A dark second-winter (3cy) Herring Gull superficially similar to an American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus was seen in the southeastern part of Norway on the 7th.
	cyberbirding.uib.no /gull/archives/2004.php (911 words)

	Lincolnshire Bird Club
		A second winter Caspian Gull at Winterton tip on the 29th January 2002, which appears to be the first of this age to be photographed and identified in the county so far?
		In our opinion the bird appears to be an adult Caspian Gull but we would welcome any other opinions on the bird.
		Interestingly there was an obvious passage of Lesser Black-backed Gulls over the weekend with adults moving north over the sea off Donna Nook and Huttoft and a reported large increase at Kirkby pits from 10-15 birds to 40+ (David Jenkins).
	www.lincsbirdclub.co.uk /rare_birds/caspian_gull.htm (576 words)

	Defenders of Wildlife - Caspian Terns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Caspian terns living in the Columbia River estuary along the border
		Caspian terns are being blamed for the salmon's decline for two
		In 2001, a federal judge issued an 18-page order requiring the COE to complete a comprehensive EIS before additional government funds are spent on hazing or destroying Caspian tern habitat in the Columbia River estuary on the Oregon/Washington border.
	www.defenders.org /wildlife/birds/terns.html (870 words)

	A
		The head is rounded/pear-shaped enough and although I think the back is too dark compared with the Herring Gull next to it, the colour is of a neutral grey only reserved for Yellow-legged Gull and Caspian.
		Differentiation of Caspian and some 'argentatus' (perhaps esp birds from the south east of the range) seems to have been an underestimated problem - features such as head pattern, bare parts (incl.
		I guess someone who sees Caspian Gull regularly in the field would be able to make a pretty confident call on the basis of jizz alone but the finer details are hard to pin down on some birds.
	www.eastlancsbirding.co.uk /main/caspianprob.htm (565 words)

	B-Mail(sm): ID-FRONTIERS for July 16-22, 2000
		I have added these here: http://www.martinreid.com/cachp32.html and I'd be most interested to get some opinion/comment on this bird, as it does not seem to fit the classic mould for Caspian Gulls seen in NW Europe.
		Perhaps Caspian Gull is more variable than has been generally described thus far, with a minority of birds showing rather darkish underwings.
		Gull systematic is still messy, but I believe we should change the systematic as soon as we discover new facts, not keep it as it is until we have understood it all.
	www.virtualbirder.com /bmail/idfrontiers/200007/w3 (2146 words)

	THE OTTER SIDE - Jaeger/Gull/Tern/etc. Images
		Caspian Terns occur in temperate regions of North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
		This Caspian Tern in flight was photographed hunting over the Rio Grande River at a park near McAllen, Texas.
		This Caspian Tern in flight was photographed along the beach at Corpus Christi, Texas.
	www.otterside.com /htmfiles/gull12.htm (350 words)

	surfbirds.com - Winter Gulls, Caspian Gull
		Here are four images of the gull of 2001 Certainly the most twitched gull of the year, the juvenile/first-winter Caspian Gull at Southwold in August and September.
		Below are some of the best pictures ever taken of Caspian Gull in Britain, by Clive Naunton (a local birder) on 28th August 2001.
		Everything is here: the structure, the head and body plumage; the tail; they show beautifully the details of the underwing and the upperwing.
	www.surfbirds.com /Rarities/white-gulls-7.html (100 words)

	Organochlorine-associated Immunosuppression in Prefledgling Caspian Terns and Herring Gulls from the Great Lakes: An ...
		In Caspian terns and, to a lesser degree, in herring gulls, there was an exposure-response relationship between organochlorines and reduced plasma retinol (vitamin A).
		Criteria for Caspian terns were a body mass of 450 to 550 g and a wing chord of 130 to 200 mm.
		For Caspian terns in 1992 and 1992 to 1994, there was moderate evidence for a weak negative correlation of the PHA response with the total antibody titer.
	www.mindfully.org /Pesticide/Organochlorine-Herring-Gulls-Fox.htm (8925 words)

	African Gulls
		The adults were similar to Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus graellsii with a clean blue-grey mantle, quite dark but with marked contrast between the wing tip and the inner wing.
		Originally thought to be a juvenile Great Black-headed Gull, this gull has been re-classified as a Caspian Gull.
		One Sooty Gull was on an island offshore on 22nd August and another flew N on 2nd September.
	www.nrossiter.supanet.com /tg (1655 words)

	Caspian Gull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The complete moult, which had already proceeded to P4, had not yet any significant effect on the appearance of the bird on the ground (even if the outermost median coverts are already missing).
		A number of wing coverts have been moulted during the winter which is a good identification feature as compared to Herring Gull.
		The bill is very typical for a large (presumably male) Caspian Gull: long and strong without strong gonys angle.
	www.helsinki.fi /~rauste/tre2004/html/C_IMG_36159.html (231 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)