My pleasure, although I need to make one correction in what I said. I meant
Piazza San Pietro, not San Marco. That's what happens when you read reports
from Venice while watching a broadcast from Vatican City. But everything I
said about gulls applies to both cities lol.
JG
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Janet Millenson <janet...> wrote:
> Thanks for sharing your expertise!
>
> -Janet
>
> On 3/14/2013 2:45 PM, world oceans wrote:
>
> Hi, After a quick glance at this, and having watched the bird(s) live on
> TV, I agree that there were at least one and probably two Yellow-legged
> Gulls, and indeed an Image search on google shows several shots of two
> birds together. It is interesting that the eyes look dark in most of the
> photos online...in my experience Yellow-legged gulls more often have a
> light eye color. However, lighting is very tricky at Piazza San Marco,
> especially when the sky is overcast (as it was yesterday). Common (Mew)
> gulls have dark eyes but I would rule that species out in these
> photos/video because of the flat shape of the heads on these birds, and the
> rather large bills. I hope to study all the available photos later and
> would love to hear comments from more folks with experience in the
> Mediterranean region....there are other species of gulls there in March,
> especially including Herring, Common (as I mentioned) and Lesser
> Black-backed, and more rarely Mediterranean, Little, Great Black-backed and
> Audoin's. But with the exception of Herring, none of these others jump out
> at me yet as possible Sistine chimney birds from yesterday.
>
> James Gibson
> Silver Spring
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Janet Millenson <janet...>wrote:
>
>> There are video clips online of a gull hanging around the Sistine
>> Chapel chimney at the Vatican, unperturbed by the throngs of people
>> gathered below. (Google "Sistine seagull" for images.) Anyone know what
>> kind of gull it is?
>>
>>
>> Janet Millenson
>> Potomac, MD (Montgomery County)
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