>> GENERAL >>>>>
– medium-sized Gull
– slightly larger than Common Black-headed Gull
– diurnal migrant, to lesser extent nocturnal
– migrates in small to large flocks in formation
>> VISUAL ID >>>>>
Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei, AD
BIF0082, 12/12/2012, Merdja Zerga, Morocco, Mathias Putze
Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei, AD
BIF0081, 12/12/2012, Merdja Zerga, Morocco, Mathias Putze
Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei, AD
BIF0465, 26/02/2015, Shinas, Sultanate of Oman, Mathias Putze
Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei, AD
BIF0466, 26/02/2015, Shinas, Sultanate of Oman, Mathias Putze
Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei, 2CY
BIF0467, 20/02/2015, Taqah, Sultanate of Oman, Mathias Putze
Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei, 2CY
BIF0468, 20/02/2015, Taqah, Sultanate of Oman, Mathias Putze
Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei, 2CY
BIF0469, 20/02/2015, Taqah, Sultanate of Oman, Mathias Putze
Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei, 2CY
BIF0470, 13/02/2015, Masirah, Sultanate of Oman, Mathias Putze
Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei, 2CY, AD (left, background)
BIF0471, 13/02/2015, Masirah, Sultanate of Oman, Mathias Putze
>> ACOUSTIC ID >>>>>
Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei, AD, calls in flight
BIF0083, 04/05/2012, Wadi-Al-Rayan, Egypt, Patrick Franke
>> COMPARISON SPECIES >>>>>
Bonaparte’s Gull
Common Black-headed Gull
Little Gull
Mediterranean Gull
Pallas’s Gull
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