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Re: 1st year yellow-legged gull vs herring and Larus cachinnans
- To: Bpworthing@aol.com
- Subject: Re: 1st year yellow-legged gull vs herring and Larus cachinnans
- From: Anne Lurie <ALURIE@nc.rr.com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 17:42:34 -0500
- CC: carolinabirds@duke.edu, mtove@intercenter.net
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Just for fun, I tried this on one of the "translate web page" sites, in
this case, Altavista's Babelfish http://babelfish.altavista.com/
Entering the link http://web.tiscali.it/ebnitalia2/QB005/realejuv.htm
and selecting "Italian to English" translation brought up results that
were interesting, to say the least! (The translation sites can be very
helpful, though, especially in cases where various search engines
repeated turn up the same "non-English" website whose identity is not
discernable from the URL.)
Anne Lurie
Raleigh, NC
ALURIE@nc.rr.com
Bpworthing@aol.com wrote:
>
> For all you gull watchers, and dreamers out there, there is an excellent
> article on the web comparing 1st year plumages of these three taxa,
> Unfortunately it's in italian, but anyone with a smattering of latin or other
> romance language should be able to navigate most of it. The photos are very
> interesting, particularly the side by side comparison of nominate herring to
> yellow-legged gull.
> The site is http://www.ebnitalia.it/QB/ . The site title is Quaderni di
> Birdwatching ( Birdwatching notebooks), the official organ of the LIPU, the
> italian birdwatching group. On the home page click on "Anno III - numero 5 -
> aprile 2001. About half way down the content page is the article "Distinzione
> di Piumaggi sul Camppo, etc - by C. Catoni. Click on this, and at least enjoy
> the pictures.
> Gabbiano reale mediterraneo = Yellow-legged gull
> Gabbiano reale nordico = Herring Gull
> Gabbiano reale del Caspio = Larus cachinnans.
> The discussed difference in shape (jiz) of Herring and Yellow-legged is real,
> not just an artifact of the side by side photo
> Pete Worthington, Simpsonville, SC
>
> .