These birds were all photographed by Tom Tams during March this year at North Shields fish quay  Tyne and Wear. He would like some assistance to try to identify both these birds.

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The first bird has been called a Glaucous x Herring Hybrid and a pale extreme of either argenteus or argentatus. Are there plumage characteristics which would support any of these conclusions?

Glaucous x Herring hybrid or an extreme example of argenteus or argentatus?

The second bird is a herring gull type but is it possible from these photographs to suggest a particular race?

Can this Herring Gull be assigned to a race.?

An enlarged version of the tertials

This is another view of the bird above.

I will publish the results of the response in due course.