From: Brian Finch <birdfinch@gmail.com>
Date: 2019-04-03 11:54
Subject: Re: [KENYABIRDSNET] Gulls in Kenya- image of the May 2018 Naivasha Gull

Sorry David,
It's not there, i have attached it to this email and the Caspian is
asleep in the foreground this was on th late date of 20th May. Does
this look like all the birds you are seeing in Rome?
Best for now
Brian

On 4/3/19, David Guarnieri <dvguarnieri@me.com> wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> I am following the conversation with interest. I was in Naivasha in February
> 2018 and took some photos of what I Iisted as LBBG. Please have a look and
> let me know if you think they might be something different. List link
> below:
>
> https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S42697526
> <https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S42697526>
>
>
> Would be great to get YLG in Kenya but I hope they don’t spread there like
> they are here in Rome!
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
>> On 3 Apr 2019, at 09:21, Brian Finch birdfinch@gmail.com [kenyabirdsnet]
>> <kenyabirdsnet-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Shailesh,
>> Thanks for stressing that we take an interest in the large gulls we
>> see in East Africa. I currently have four nominate Caspian Gull
>> records in with the East African Rarities Committee awaiting
>> consideration, one Kenyan and three Ugandan. But also have another
>> half-dozen records to submit later that may involve Steppe and
>> Yellow-legged Gulls. For the people that went to see the Caspian Tern
>> at Lake Naivasha in May 2018, and saw a larger and paler-backed gull
>> with the Baltic (Lesser Black-backed Gulls) images of this bird have
>> been sent to Klaus Malling Olsen who authored the gull book you are
>> referring to, and his response was that this can only be a
>> Yellow-legged Gull!
>> Best for now
>> Brian
>>
>> On 4/2/19, Shailesh Kumar Patel honeyguide_sk@yahoo.com
>> <mailto:honeyguide_sk@yahoo.com>
>> [kenyabirdsnet] <kenyabirdsnet-noreply@yahoogroups.com
>> <mailto:kenyabirdsnet-noreply@yahoogroups.com>> wrote:
>> > Hello,There was anemail which Brian Finch wrote about the large gulls
>> > seen
>> > in Kenya. It isimportant to look at the gull species very carefully
>> > especially the large ones.Here in the UK, we the birders are always
>> > looking
>> > for rare or uncommon gull/swhich can either be with a flock of other
>> > gull
>> > species..There is nowa separate large gull species from the Lesser
>> > Black-backed Gull.Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus is now called
>> > Baltic
>> > Gull Larus fuscusLesser Black-backed Gull Larus(fuscus)
>> > intermedius/graellsii. Ssp. graellsii found in W.Europe, Iceland and
>> > Britain
>> > and hasslate-grey back.Is there any slighting of Heuglin’s Gull
>> > Larus.h.
>> > heuglini in Kenya?There is a bookon Gulls of the World A Photographic
>> > Guide
>> > by Klaus Malling Olsen.Shailesh
>>
>> 
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