Field signs. Slightly larger lake gulls, a slender, dlinnosheynaya and dlinnohvostaya. Particularly noticeable extended head, beak long dark red, relatively thin, very small, just intended to podklyuve knobs. Legs are red. Mantle is very bright. In all the statement of white operenii pink flying, especially noticeable on the breast of adult birds. A flying bird prom broad wings with contrasting black and white ends, light leisurely flight. The autumn coloring is the same with low gray bloom at temeni and the back of his head, the birds of small dark spot on the ear, beak and legs are orange or dark yellow. Young resemble the young lake gulls, but much lighter, with yellow or yellow-orange beak. Distinguished young adult poluvzroslyh and fall of lake gulls best by a long thin rostral. Weight 230-375 g, about 46 cm in length, wing 27,5-32,1 cm, the magnitude of approximately 100-105 cm (Ryabitsev, 2001). Distribution. A few pockets of nesting in North Africa, southern Europe, the Middle East, the Black and Caspian seas, the lakes in Central Asia. It is a regular nesting on the lake. Tengiz in central Kazakhstan. Nest colony known in the Novosibirsk region on the lake. Chany and south-east of the Orenburg region (Ryabitsev, 2001). References. |
