Archive > January 2002 - December 2002

14th. of November 2002: An adult Glaucous Gull from August 2001 is uploaded here. The faithful Ring-billed Gull showed up for the first time this autumn in the city park of Bergen. Some pictures are added to the Norwegian Cyberbirding site, click here.

1st. of November 2002: A leucistic adult Black-headed Gull from this summer is added today, and can be found here.

1st. of October 2002: Two more juvenile Lesser Black-backed Gulls are added today. Bird one can be viewed here, and five pictures of bird two here (including detail shots of coverts, tertials, tail etc.). During ringing of Common Gulls in the city park of Bergen, we caught a remarkable bird. It is unclear what this clubfooted bird is infected with (some kind of worm; nematode, effect of a virus or a bachterial infection?). Have a look at this picture, and send me a comment if you have any suggestions.

26th. of September 2002: Two juvenile Lesser Black-backed Gulls from yesterday are added here and here.

19th. of August 2002: Two juvenile Great Black-backed Gulls from July this year are added here and here.

8th. of August 2002: A brilliant flight-shot of a second summer Ring-billed Gull from Rogaland, May 1998 can bee seen here.

2nd. of August 2002: Some images of the juvenile Thayer's Gull in Denmark last winter are added today. See them here. Thanks to Kim Aaen for letting us use his photos on this site.

31st. of May 2002: Two sub-adult (3rd. summer) Lesser Black-backed gulls are added today. The first bird is very adult-like in overall plumage and bare parts, but show no white in primary tips despite an obvious white spot is present on p10. The tail has black vermiculation on most feathers. Have a look at it here. The next bird is pretty similar to the first one, but it showed somewhat brighter upperparts in the field, no vermiculation on the tail, and a brownish hue on the wing-coverts. See it here.

27th. of May 2002: A series of nice photos by Martin Eggen have been uploaded today:

  • An adult breeding Baltic Gull from the Norwegian breeding population
  • Another adult breeding Baltic Gull
  • A first summer Iceland Gull
  • Another first summer Iceland Gull
  • A presumed hybrid Glaucous x Herring Gull

    15th. of May 2002: A stunning hybrid gull (GGxHG) was added today. See three images of this very Glaucous Gull-like bird here.

    10th. of April 2002: A Lesser Black-backed Gull showing characteristics of L. f. graellsii is added today. See it here.

    6th. of April 2002: A new "yellowish"-legged Herring Gull turned up in Bergen today. It was a fourth calendar-year, and three pictures can bee seen here. Also new; an intermedius Lesser Black-backed Gull here.

    4th. of April 2002: A Second winter/summer Great Black-backed Gull is new today. See it here.

    3rd. of April 2002: Six new intermedius Lesser Black-backed Gull pages have been added today (all photographed yesterday). Note the variation in white tips of primaries, upperpart color and black spots in the bills. View page 1, page 2, page 3 (subadult?), page 4 (intergrade?), page 5 (couple) and page 6.

    1st. of April 2002: Three pictures of a Herring Gull with yellowish feet photographed yesterday can be found here. And an extremely bright first-winter Herring Gull from today can bee seen here.

    16th. of March 2002: Two new photos of one of the adult Ring-billed gulls wintering in Bergen is added today. Primary tips features (e.g. window on p10) are illustrated. See them here.

    15th. of March 2002: 2 photos of a second winter Glaucous Gull are added today, and can be found here.

    4th. of March 2002: The second winter Ring-billed Gull present in Oslo at the moment is added today. Here you can see what it looks like today, and here are some photos of the bird in first winter plumage.

    3rd. of March 2002: A picture of two second winter Great Black-backed Gulls can bee seen here. Also from the same date and location (Fedje, Hordaland, 2nd. of March) you can see two adults; bird 1 and bird 2 (portrait). Fedje is probably one of the best sites to study GBBG's in Hordaland. Yeaterdays trip gave more than 300 birds, and many of them are already defending territories. Also new today, an adult Black-headed Gull moulting into summer plumage here.

    20th. of February 2002: A second-winter Lesser Black-backed Gull from Oslo on the 18th. of February is added today. Two photos can bee viewed here. The species is a very rare winter-bird in Norway. An adult Great Black-backed Gull is also added, and can be seen here.

    11th. of February 2002: A "dark-eyed" adult winter Ring-billed Gull from Bergen today is added. The bird was initially ringed in January 1999, and is in its fourth winter plumage now. See two images here.

    6th. of February 2002: An overview picture from a Black-legged Kittiwake colony is added.

    5th. of February 2002: A second-winter Herring Gull, and an adult winter Common Gull is new at the site today.

    30th. of January 2002: The link-section has been upgraded with seven new excellent gull-pages from around the world. Thanks to Martin Reid for information on sites not included here before.

    28th. of January 2002: Three photos of a first-winter Glaucous Gull is added here, and a new first-winter Iceland Gull can bee seen here.

    25th. of January 2002: The first Iceland Gull this winter in Hordaland county was a first-winter bird in Bergen today. Two images can bee seen here. Also new today is a first-winter Great Black-backed Gull photographed yesterday. See it here.

    18th. of January 2002: Three different birds are uploaded from todays Gull-check in Bergen:

  • There should be some Glaucous Gull-genes in this first-winter Gull
  • A second-winter Herring Gull on the dark edge of the range
  • A slim first-winter Herring Gull with long wings and white head

    17th. of January 2002: Six fresh and better quality photos of the hybrid from the 3rd. are new today. Close views of all feather-groups can bee seen here. The fifth presumed hybrid in Bergen this January, found yesterday; can be seen here. Two older hybrids, from February 2000, are also new: bird 1 and bird 2. Some Herring Gulls of different ages are uploaded today. All photographed in Bergen early January 2002: first-winter, second-winter, second-winter, second-winter and an adult winter Common Gull.

    14th. of January 2002: An abberrant first-winter Herring Gull showed up in Bergen today. The bird is showing some features often associated with the Nearctic subspecies smithsonianus, but could of course just be an argentatus extreme? Have a look, and e-mail your opinion. Six pictures can be seen here.

    7th. of January 2002: Two new presumed hybrids (HGxGG) are added. Bird 1 and bird 2. An adult winter Scandinavian Herring Gull is also uploaded, and can be found here.

    3rd. of January 2002: An appearant first-winter hybrid Glaucous x Herring Gull from Bergen on the 3rd. is added here.

    Back to News and recent additions