Gallery of CR Gulls From Portugal

As I've already mentioned, during my trip to Portugal I read the plastic colour rings on 60 gulls.

Below is a selection of photos of some of these birds starting with my favourite image:

Lesser Black-backed Gull, J6UX, Norwegian Ringed, Regular Records from Spain and Portugal in Winter 

Lesser Black-backed Gull, JJ9T, Norwegian Ringed, Recorded in Western Sahara, February 2012

Lesser Black-backed Gull, T:55M, Ringed in Aberdeen this Summer

1st Year Lesser Black-backed Gull, LLLJ, ringed in Suffolk

Adult Lesser Black-backed Gull, MADA, Ringed in the Netherlands

1st Year Lesser Black-backed Gull, Z.E, Ringed in Holland this Summer

Lesser Black-backed Gull, K.J, Ringed in Holland

Lesser Black-backed Gull, BO, Ringed in Holland

Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2.V3, Ringed on Sark, Channel Islands

Lesser Black-backed Gull, 4AW3, Ringed on Guernsey

Lesser Black-backed Gull, 3AC5, Ringed on Guernsey

Ringed as a Lesser Black-backed Gull, M+C, but may be either a Herring Gull or a hybrid. Ringed in Bristol 

CTY ringed in Gloucestershire

The last four were all rescued by the RIAS - Centro de Recuperação e Investigação de Animais Selvagens Ria Formosa. They were rehabilitated and released and are surviving well as you can see. 

Juvenile Yellow-legged Gull F305

Second-winter Yellow-legged Gull F181

Fourth Year Yellow-legged Gull F052

Adult Lesser Black-backed Gull F196