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What the rings reveal

10,000 Birds

The first sighting of it after being rung was close to the town of Utena in north-east Lithuania on 11 July 2015. My most recent experience with a Darvic-ringed gull was in Andalucia last month, when I photographed the Lesser Black-backed Gull in my photograph ( above ) on the Playa de Zahora (Zahora beach, close to Cape Trafalgar).

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