Brown Headed Gulls. What a headache they had given me... not while I clicked them here, boating in Sangam at Maha-Kumbh of Allahabad. Actually, when I wanted to zero down on the particular species, every possible source kept telling me that they are brown-headed gulls. My problem was that my old clicks had no brown-heads and that goes against the common sense as well as against the naming convention of species.
After hours of search and studying many sources, I discovered that the breeding plumage makes the male head brown in an otherwise similar male and female color-scheme. What a relief that was. Now notice that the brown-headed one is a male, surrounded by two females. What luck!
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