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From an analysis of ringing recoveries, body measurements, timing of primary moult and of arrival and departure, it is suggested that the Herring Gulls wintering inland in south-east England originate from breeding colonies in Arctic Norway and Russia.
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Stanley et al. (1981) studied this question.
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