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What are these 2 birds-Dingle bay yesterday??

Straffan1979 · 2010-08-16 11:31:00

Hi, came across these 2 birds yesterday,I think one is a Skua- fairly aggressive and not afraid of Black backed gulls when we were throwing out guts of fish.The other one a 'little gull' ???-after looking at a few books. Any ideas???

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16-08-2010 12:31pm

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Straffan1979

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Hi,
came across these 2 birds yesterday,I think one is a Skua- fairly aggressive and not afraid of Black backed gulls when we were throwing out guts of fish.The other one a 'little gull' ???-after looking at a few books.
Any ideas???

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#2 16-08-2010 1:02pm
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The skua is a Great Skua. The small gull is a juvenile/first winter Kittiwake. Note the "W" pattern on the upperparts.

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#3 17-08-2010 10:28am
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As Fergal said the first is a Great Skua or Bonxie as they are sometimes called. And the second is a kittiwake as pointed out. Another good pointer for the kittiwake is the black legs....

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