Wednesday 6 January 2021

You can't beat maps & pins

My favourite Christmas present was a Europe map pinboard, purchased purely to map out the colour-ringed gulls recorded at the Gann (the ones not from Pembrokeshire).  2020 is now complete.  In summary: 47 birds, of 7 species, from 15 countries.  The breakdown as follows:

Caspian Gull - Germany 1

Herring Gull - Wales 1

Black-headed Gull - England 2

Common Gull - Norway 3

Lesser Black-backed Gull - Iceland 1, England 1, Guernsey 1

Great Black-backed Gull - Wales 6, Ireland 2, Norway 1, France 1, Guernsey 1

Mediterranean Gull - Belgium 10, Germany 5, Netherlands 3, Poland 3, Denmark 1, Serbia 1, Czech Republic 1, France 1, Hungary 1