The last two blog posting have covered exciting movements of
Guernsey colour-ringed Great Black-backed and Herring gulls. Today it is the
turn of Lesser Black-backed Gulls with a recent hat-trick of reports from
Morocco. Any gull movements to Africa always make exciting news for us…so to
get three in a fortnight is rather special. Two birds (Black 2CK7 and Black
2CH7) were both ringed in May this year at Chouet Landfill. The former was a 3rd
year gull, and it returned south quite quickly, being seen near Porto, Portugal
on 25 June by Inocencio Oliveira and Teresa Rocha. Black 2CH7 was ringed as an
adult male, but not seen again in Guernsey or anywhere else until Jeremy Dupuy
and Charlotte Perrot saw both birds at Oued Tamri, Morocco – a straight-line
distance from Guernsey of almost 2,200 km!
Today Ruth Garcia Gorria reported LBBG Black 3CH4 (another adult
male ringed at Chouet last May) from Sidi Moussa-Walidia Saltpans,
Doukkala-Abda, Morocco – a distance of just over 1,900 km from Chouet!
My thanks – as ever- to the observers who take the time and
trouble to report colour ringed gulls to us.
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| LBBGs at Anza Beach, Morocco - December 2013 (c) PKV |
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| PKV gull watching at Oued Tamri - December 2013 (c) Catherine Veron |
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