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Saturday, 26 January 2019

Wetland Centre gulls

Adult Ring-billed Gull, Tralee Bay Wetlands Centre, 26th January 2019 (Ed Carty).

Adult argentatus Herring Gull, Tralee Bay Wetlands Centre, 26th January 2019 (Ed Carty).

The dark-backed, large-proportioned Scandinavian race of Herring Gull, and apparently only the fifth record for Kerry, though this must be one of the most under-recorded and overlooked of sub-species.