Might as well enjoy the Oriental White Storks (Ciconia boyciana)while we've got them
We had a trip out to the Pearl Delta on the 19th February, on the HK Dolphinwatch boat. Apart from the incomparable Chinese White Dolphins (Sousa chinensis)...
......there were about two hundred migrating gulls on the water, including about seventy Black-tailed Gulls (L. crassirostris).
And gulls at the Mai Po boardwalk, too -
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| Pallas's Gull (l) and Black-headed Gull (r) |
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| "Heuglins" Gull - Larus fuscus heuglini |
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| "Heuglins" Gull - Larus fuscus heuglini |
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| Pink legs on a LWHGull ? - points to Larus vegae mongolicus |
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| Larus vegae mongolicus - 2cy, I think |
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| Pallas's Gull, greeted by a "mongolicus" |
Don't get me started on the shifting sands of Gull Taxonomy.
