{"id":2137,"date":"2026-01-01T18:17:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T18:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/?page_id=2137"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:54:56","slug":"qatar-birds-gulls-terns-skuas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/?page_id=2137","title":{"rendered":"Gulls, Terns & Skuas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Little Gull<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Little<\/a>
Little Gull. Qatar, 11 January 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Slender-billed Gull<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Slender-billed<\/a>
Slender-billed Gull. Qatar, 22 October 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Slender-billed<\/a>
Slender-billed Gull. Qatar, 02 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Slender-billed<\/a>
Slender-billed Gull. Qatar, 06 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Slender-billed<\/a>
Slender-billed Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Slender-billed<\/a>
Slender-billed Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Slender-billed<\/a>
Slender-billed Gull. Qatar, 20 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Pallas’s Gull<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Pallas's<\/a>
Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 06 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Pallas's<\/a>
Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Pallas's<\/a>
Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Pallas's<\/a>
Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Pallas's<\/a>
Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Pallas's<\/a>
Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Pallas's<\/a>
Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Pallas's<\/a>
Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 18 November 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Pallas's<\/a>
Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 19 February 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Pallas's<\/a>
Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 25 February 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Pallas's<\/a>
Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 25 February 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Pallas's<\/a>
Pallas’s Gull. Qatar, 25 February 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

I shall revisit the identification of large white-headed gulls once I have updated my knowledge of the latest literature covering these difficult taxa:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Caspian Gull
Heuglin’s Gull
Baltic Gull<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Caspian<\/a>
Caspian Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Heuglin's<\/a>
Heuglin’s Gull. Qatar, 02 November 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Baltic<\/a>
Baltic Gull. Qatar, 16 November 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Baltic<\/a>
Baltic Gull. Qatar, 16 November 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Steppe Gull
<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Steppe<\/a>
Steppe Gull. Qatar, 02 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Steppe<\/a>
Steppe Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Steppe<\/a>
Steppe Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Steppe<\/a>
Steppe Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Steppe<\/a>
Steppe Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Steppe<\/a>
Steppe Gull. Qatar, 07 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Steppe<\/a>
Steppe Gull. Qatar, 25 February 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Unidentifed Gulls
<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gull<\/a>
Gull sp. Qatar, 26 October 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Gull<\/a>
Gull sp. Qatar, 11 January 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Gull<\/a>
Gull sp. Qatar, 11 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gull-billed Tern<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gull-billed<\/a>
Gull-billed Tern. Qatar, 15 October 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Gull-billed<\/a>
Gull-billed Tern. Qatar, 07 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Gull-billed<\/a>
Gull-billed Tern. Qatar, 11 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Gull-billed<\/a>
Gull-billed Tern. Qatar, 11 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gull-billed<\/a>
Gull-billed Tern. Qatar, 11 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Gull-billed<\/a>
Gull-billed Tern. Qatar, 30 March 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Caspian Tern<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Caspian<\/a>
Caspian Tern. Qatar, 31 October 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Caspian<\/a>
Caspian Tern. Qatar, 02 November 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Caspian<\/a>
Caspian Tern. Qatar, 06 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Caspian<\/a>
Caspian Tern. Qatar, 07 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Caspian<\/a>
Caspian Tern. Qatar, 19 February 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Lesser Crested Tern
<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Lesser<\/a>
Lesser Crested Tern. Qatar, 18 October 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Lesser<\/a>
Lesser Crested Tern. Qatar, 18 October 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Lesser<\/a>
Lesser Crested Tern. Qatar, 31 October 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Lesser<\/a>
Lesser Crested Tern. Qatar, 29 May 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Lesser<\/a>
Lesser Crested Tern. Qatar, 19 February 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Lesser<\/a>
Lesser Crested Tern. Qatar, 27 May 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Greater Crested Tern<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Greater<\/a>
Greater Crested Tern. Qatar, 06 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Greater<\/a>
Greater Crested Tern. Qatar, 18 November 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Greater<\/a>
Greater Crested Tern. Qatar, 18 November 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Greater<\/a>
Greater Crested Tern. Qatar, 24 March 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Sandwich Tern
Bridled Tern<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sandwich<\/a>
Sandwich Tern. Qatar, 06 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Bridled<\/a>
Bridled Tern. Qatar, 07 June 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Bridled<\/a>
Bridled Tern. Qatar, 07 June 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

White-cheeked Tern<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"White-cheeked<\/a>
White-cheeked Tern. Qatar, 10 April 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"White-cheeked<\/a>
White-cheeked Tern. Qatar, 10 April 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"White-cheeked<\/a>
White-cheeked Tern. Qatar, 29 May 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"White-cheeked<\/a>
White-cheeked Tern. Qatar, 07 June 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"White-cheeked<\/a>
White-cheeked Tern. Qatar, 07 June 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"White-cheeked<\/a>
White-cheeked Tern. Qatar, 11 May 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2018European Little Tern\u2019 and Saunders\u2019s Tern” (British Birds 2023. Vol.116: Pages 210\u2013221):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Little Tern<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Little<\/a>
Little Tern. Qatar, 26 June 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Little<\/a>
Little Tern. Qatar, 27 May 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Little<\/a>
Little Tern. Qatar, 11 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Little<\/a>
Little Tern. Qatar, 11 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Little<\/a>
Little Tern. Qatar, 01 July 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Saunders’s Tern<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Saunders's<\/a>
Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 06 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Saunders's<\/a>
Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 11 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Saunders's<\/a>
Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 13 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Saunders's<\/a>
Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 13 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Saunders's<\/a>
Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 13 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Saunders's<\/a>
Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 01 July 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Saunders's<\/a>
Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 01 July 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Saunders's<\/a>
Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 02 June 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Saunders's<\/a>
Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 04 June 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Saunders's<\/a>
Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 31 March 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Unidentified Sternula<\/em> terns<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Little\/Saunders's<\/a>
Little\/Saunders’s Tern. Qatar, 02 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Pomarine Jaeger
Arctic Skua<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Pomarine<\/a>
Pomarine Jaeger. Qatar, 12 November 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Arctic<\/a>
Arctic Skua. Qatar, 05 March 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Arctic<\/a>
Arctic Skua. Qatar, 18 November 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Arctic<\/a>
Arctic Skua. Qatar, 24 November 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Arctic<\/a>
Arctic Skua. Qatar, 14 January 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Arctic<\/a>
Arctic Skua. Qatar, 26 April 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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< Snipes, sandpipers and allies & Pratincoles<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandgrouse, Doves, Parakeets, Cuckoos, Owls, Nightjars & Swifts ><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Little Gull Slender-billed Gull Pallas’s Gull 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 GullHeuglin’s GullBaltic Gull Steppe Gull Unidentifed Gulls Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Lesser Crested Tern Greater Crested Tern Sandwich TernBridled Tern White-cheeked Tern I have made…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":181,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2137","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9161,"href":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2137\/revisions\/9161"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}