Can you spot the Mediterranean gull in these pictures? If you do so, you might also guess from its position in the frame that you are doing better than I was when I took these shots: hint – look in the left.
It was among a group of black-headed gulls on the RSPB Bowling Green reserve. As the pictures show, “black-headed gull” is yet another of those vernacular misnomers for a bird species. Their head feathers (breeding season only) are dark brown. Only one bird in these pictures is actually black-headed: it’s the med gull.