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Systematic list - part 6: Gulls and Terns

All dates refer to May 2013

 

Slender-billed Gull Chroicocephalus genei (40+)

Up to 40 Ebro Delta 20th-21st.

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Slender-billed Gulls, Ebro Delta, 20th May

 

Black-headed Gull Chroicocephalus ridibundus (400+)

1 between Candasnos and Osera de Ebro 17th, 250-300 Ebro Delta 20th and 21st, 4 Ullals de Baltasar 21st.

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Black-headed Gull, Ebro Delta, 21st May

 

Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus (2)

2 Ebro Delta 20th.

 

Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii (400)

400 Ebro Delta 20th and 21st.

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Audouin's Gulls, Ebro Delta, 20th May

 

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Audouin's Gulls, Ebro Delta, 21st May

 

Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus (1)

1 Ebro Delta 20th.

 

Yellow-legged Gull Larus michahellis (3111)

1-3 at 9 sites south of the Pyrenees, 1100 Ebro Delta 20th and 2000 at a breeding colony Ebro Delta 21st.

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Yellow-legged Gulls, Ebro Delta, 20th May

 

Gull-billed Tern Gelochiledon nilotica (30)

20+ Ebro Delta 20th, 10 Ebro Delta 21st.

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Gull-billed Terns, Riet Vell, Ebro Delta, 21st May

 

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Gull-billed Terns, Ebro Delta, 20th May (left) and Riet Vell, Ebro Delta, 21st May (right)

 

Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis (20)

Up to at least 20 Ebro Delta 20th-21st.

 

Common Tern Sterna hirundo (50)

Up to 40 Ebro Delta 20th-21st.

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Common Tern, Ebro Delta, 20th May

 

Little Tern Sternula albifrons (38)

Up to 35 Ebro Delta 20th-21st.

 

Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybridus (300)

Up to 250 Ebro Delta 20th-21st.

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Whiskered Tern, Ebro Delta, 20th May

 

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