{"id":4139,"date":"2026-01-10T15:38:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/?page_id=4139"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:23:36","slug":"steppe-gull-01","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/?page_id=4139","title":{"rendered":"Steppe Gull"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gull_steppe_2013-03-02_IMG_1522.jpg\" alt=\"Steppe Gull. Qatar, 02 March 2013 \u00a9\u00a0Neil G. Morris.\" class=\"wp-image-3808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gull_steppe_2013-03-02_IMG_1522.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gull_steppe_2013-03-02_IMG_1522-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gull_steppe_2013-03-02_IMG_1522-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gull_steppe_2013-03-02_IMG_1522-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gull_steppe_2013-03-02_IMG_1522-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/gull_steppe_2013-03-02_IMG_1522-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Steppe Gull. Qatar, 02 March 2013 \u00a9&nbsp;Neil G. Morris.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fourth calendar year individual that appears to have completed body moult from third winter to third summer plumage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note the short and broad, pale grey tongue at the base of the inner web to P10, unlike Caspian Gull and most Heuglin&#8217;s Gulls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A significant proportion of sub-adult and adult Steppe Gulls in Qatar showed pale irises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth calendar year individual that appears to have completed body moult from third winter to third summer plumage. Note the short and broad, pale grey tongue at the base of the inner web to P10, unlike Caspian Gull and most Heuglin&#8217;s Gulls. A significant proportion of sub-adult and adult Steppe Gulls in Qatar showed pale&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2137,"menu_order":0,"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-4139","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4139","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=4139"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4386,"href":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4139\/revisions\/4386"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarsiger.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}