(2 images) LBBG H5, November 15 2003, Westkapelle, the Netherlands.

Ringed as adult at Moerdijk, the Netherlands. Primary moult score of 49, with P10 leveling P8. Secondaries and rectrices fully grown. A small individual, probably female, slightly paler grey compared with the numerous intermedius LBBG present today. The yellow bill has some black on both upper and lower mandible. The red gonydeal spot is confined to the lower mandible. The yellow-white iris shows no speckling. and the orbital ring is red.

Notes from the ringer (R.-J. Buijs) on this Lesser Black-backed Gull, Larus fuscus.
Ringed as breeding adult female (>4cy) on 10 May 2002 at industrial complex Moerdijk by Harry van Vugt and Roland-Jan Buijs. The next year, re-caught at the nest again for the RAS-project on 20 May 2003 at Moerdijk and subsequently a mint-green ring H5 was attached. This colour-ring was read on 15 & 16 November 2003 at Westkapelle, the Netherlands by Theo en Mars Muusse. On 11 January 2004 Marc van Leeuwen rediscovered H5 in the port of Agadir (Morocco); a considerable 2.397 km from the breeding grounds. Within three months, on 14 April H5 was seen for the first time again in the colony of Moerdijk and on 16 May this female was caught again by Roland-Jan Buijs (and praised for all the hard work!). At first impression it seems odd to find H5 wandering around near the breeding grounds by mid November, only to turn up in Morocco by January. Harry Vercruijsse who is participating in the large Belgian colour-ring project of LBBG confirmed this happens more often in LBBG.