Birds of Oman

Pallas’s Gull White-eyed Gull Sooty Gull Common Gull ad winter ad winter ad winter ad summer ad summer ad ad ad ad 1st-winter 1s ...

120 PLATE 53: LARGE WHITE-HEADED GULLS Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus WV, PM Several subspecies – fuscus, heuglini and ba ...

Baltic Gull Heuglin’s Gull Steppe Gull Caspian Gull ad winter ad winter ad winter ad winter ad summer ad summer ad summer ad sum ...

122 PLATE 54: LARGE WHITE-HEADED GULLS – COMPARISON PLATE The plate opposite shows the plumage for a typical adult of the three ...

Heuglin’s Gull Steppe Gull Caspian Gull ...

124 PLATE 55: LARGER TERNS Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica PM, WV L: 38. W: 95. Medium-sized tern somewhat resembling San ...

Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Greater Crested Tern Lesser Crested Tern Sandwich Tern ad winter ad winter ad winter ad winter ad ...

126 PLATE 56: SMALLER TERNS Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii mb, sv L: 38 (including tail streamers). W: 77. Similar to Common Tern ...

Roseate Tern Common Tern White-cheeked Tern Arctic Tern ad winter ad winter 1st-winter 1st-winter ad summer ad summer ad spring ...

128 PLATE 57: SMALL AND PELAGIC TERNS Little Tern Sternula albifrons mb L: 23. W: 53. Small with fast wingbeats. Adult in summer ...

Little Tern Saunders’s Tern Bridled Tern Sooty Tern juv juv juv juv juv ad ad ad ad ad summer ad summer ...

130 PLATE 58: MARSH TERNS Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida PM, WV, sv L: 25. W: 73. Slightly larger than White-winged Tern with ...

Whiskered Tern White-winged Tern Black Tern juv ad summer ad summer ad summer ad winter ad winter ad winter juv juv ...

132 PLATE 59: SKUAS South Polar Skua Stercorarius maccormicki V L: 53. W: 127. Closely resembles Brown Skua. Pale and intermedia ...

South Polar Skua Brown Skua Pomarine Skua Arctic Skua Long-tailed Skua ad summer ad summer ad summer ad summer intermediate morp ...

134 PLATE 60: SANDGROUSE Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Pterocles exustus RB, WV L: 32. W: 50. In fast flight shows diagnostic all- ...

Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse Spotted Sandgrouse Crowned Sandgrouse Lichenstein’s Sandgrouse Pin-tailed Sandgrouse         ...

136 PLATE 61: PIGEONS AND TURTLE DOVES Rock Dove Columba livia RB L: 33. Pale blue-grey pigeon, recalling Stock Dove, with two b ...

Rock Dove Stock Dove Common Wood Pigeon European Turtle Dove Oriental Turtle Dove arenicola turtur meena iranica ad ad ad ad ad ...

138 PLATE 62: COLLARED, LAUGHING AND NAMAQUA DOVES Eurasian Collared Dove Streptopelia decaocto RB, WV L: 31–34. Medium-small, s ...