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Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus

Third calendar-year graellsii, West Midlands, April 2013


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Lesser Black-backed Gull, 3cy, April 2013

© A. R. Dean

A 3cy (second-summer) Lesser Black-backed Gull in April, extensively slate-grey mantle and scapulars and some new median coverts. Bill still predominantly dark but with some pale yellow developing at base and part-way along upper mandible. Head clean white as enters 'second summer' plumage.


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