Slender-billed Gull. Qatar, 22 October 2012.Slender-billed Gull. Qatar, 02 March 2013.Slender-billed Gull. Qatar, 06 March 2013.Slender-billed Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.Slender-billed Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.Slender-billed Gull. Qatar, 20 March 2013.
Pallas’s Gull
Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 06 March 2013.Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 18 November 2013.Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 19 February 2014.Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 25 February 2014.Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 25 February 2014.Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 25 February 2014.
I shall revisit the identification of large white-headed gulls once I have updated my knowledge of the latest literature covering these difficult taxa:
Caspian Gull Heuglin’s Gull Baltic Gull
Caspian Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.Heuglin’s Gull. Qatar, 02 November 2012.Baltic Gull. Qatar, 16 November 2012.Baltic Gull. Qatar, 16 November 2012.
Steppe Gull
Steppe Gull. Qatar, 02 March 2013.Steppe Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.Steppe Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.Steppe Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.Steppe Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.Steppe Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.Steppe Gull. Qatar, 25 February 2014.
Unidentifed Gulls
Gull sp. Qatar, 26 October 2012.Gull sp. Qatar, 11 January 2013.Gull sp. Qatar, 11 March 2013.
Gull-billed Tern
Gull-billed Tern. Qatar, 15 October 2012.Gull-billed Tern. Qatar, 07 March 2013.Gull-billed Tern. Qatar, 11 March 2013.Gull-billed Tern. Qatar, 11 March 2013.Gull-billed Tern. Qatar, 11 March 2013.Gull-billed Tern. Qatar, 30 March 2015.
Caspian Tern
Caspian Tern. Qatar, 31 October 2012.Caspian Tern. Qatar, 02 November 2012.Caspian Tern. Qatar, 06 March 2013.Caspian Tern. Qatar, 07 March 2013.Caspian Tern. Qatar, 19 February 2014.
Lesser Crested Tern
Lesser Crested Tern. Qatar, 18 October 2012.Lesser Crested Tern. Qatar, 18 October 2012.Lesser Crested Tern. Qatar, 31 October 2012.Lesser Crested Tern. Qatar, 29 May 2013.Lesser Crested Tern. Qatar, 19 February 2014.Lesser Crested Tern. Qatar, 27 May 2014.
Greater Crested Tern
Greater Crested Tern. Qatar, 06 March 2013.Greater Crested Tern. Qatar, 18 November 2013.Greater Crested Tern. Qatar, 18 November 2013.Greater Crested Tern. Qatar, 24 March 2014.
Sandwich Tern Bridled Tern
Sandwich Tern. Qatar, 06 March 2013.Bridled Tern. Qatar, 07 June 2013.Bridled Tern. Qatar, 07 June 2013.
White-cheeked Tern
White-cheeked Tern. Qatar, 10 April 2013.White-cheeked Tern. Qatar, 10 April 2013.White-cheeked Tern. Qatar, 29 May 2013.White-cheeked Tern. Qatar, 07 June 2013.White-cheeked Tern. Qatar, 07 June 2013.White-cheeked Tern. Qatar, 11 May 2014.
I have made a mental note to review the identification of these Little/Saunder’s Terns photographs once I have absorbed the recent paper, “A new subspecies of Little Tern from the Levant and its distinction from ‘European Little Tern’ and Saunders’s Tern” (British Birds 2023. Vol.116: Pages 210–221):
Little Tern
Little Tern. Qatar, 26 June 2013.Little Tern. Qatar, 27 May 2014.Little Tern. Qatar, 11 March 2013.Little Tern. Qatar, 11 March 2013.Little Tern. Qatar, 01 July 2014.
Saunders’s Tern
Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 06 March 2013.Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 11 March 2013.Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 13 March 2013.Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 13 March 2013.Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 13 March 2013.Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 01 July 2014.Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 01 July 2014.Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 02 June 2013.Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 04 June 2013.Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 31 March 2015.
Unidentified Sternula terns
Little/Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 02 March 2013.
Pomarine Jaeger Arctic Skua
Pomarine Jaeger. Qatar, 12 November 2013Arctic Skua. Qatar, 05 March 2013.Arctic Skua. Qatar, 18 November 2013.Arctic Skua. Qatar, 24 November 2013.Arctic Skua. Qatar, 14 January 2014.Arctic Skua. Qatar, 26 April 2014.
