… and joined Pedro Moreira on a trip to the Eirol landfill to look for gull rings and some general birding. 3500 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 100 Yellow-legged Gulls, 40 Black-headed Gulls, 1 Audouin's gull, 541 White Storks and 8 Black Kites were present. 44 rings were read, all around the legs of LBBG’s.
1st year Audouin's gull Ichthyaetus audouinii
We also visited some of the salt pans near Aveiro to look for shorebirds. By now, many Dunlins and plovers have arrived from the north.
One Dunlin stood out from the crowd: a possible partially albino or leucistic individual. Pedro also noticed the same bird at the Salinas some time earlier.
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