In
my limited experience of Pallas's Gull this species seems to be a
nocturnal feeder in much the same way as Audoin's
Gull. In the eastern
Mediterranean off the coast of Israel
I have almost only seen this species during the hours of darkness
(January 2010 and January 2011). Needless
to say this presented some photographic difficulties - the images below
were shot at ISO3200 and 1/15 of a second - even after underexposing as
much as possible. With a handheld 400mm lens on a moving boat the
results speak for themselves...
Above
and below, Pallas's Gull feeding at night, off Israel,
January 2011
Norway's
first ever Pallas's Gull, Oslo, August 2014
The following book
takes
a lot of the mystery of gull identification:
Pallas's Gull, Dubai harbour, UAE, March 2019 Picture taken with a superzoom camera