Aisatsu

Aisatsu

This blog is for family and friends, to share my feelings and photos with and for myself, to support my fading memory. Readers who have my site translated automatically, please refer to the original if necessary. Especially when it comes to identification. Any comments, anonymous or by email name are always welcome!.

Monday 29 February 2016

Saunders’s Gull, ズグロカモメ – Vulnerable

A handful of these vulnerable gulls winters in Imazu. They are the smallest of the lot, just a bit smaller than the Black-headed Gulls with similar markings and from a distance difficult to distinguish. The bill is stubby and black. And the wings have a dotted pattern visible at rest.







  







The Competition:  Black-headed Gull, ユリカモメ

  

The bill longer and red-colored, overall a bit larger



Seen at the same time: Common Greenshanks, アオアシシギ





And Osprey, ミサゴ with his catch of the day



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