Atlantic Yellow-legged Gull (atlantis)

(last update: October 12, 2011)

Atlantic YLG (atlantis) 2cy, October 12 2008, Corvo - Azores Islands. Picture: Dominic Mitchell.

Dark blackish fresh primaries witrh rounded tips, P10 might still be growing. Even moulting out of first-summer into second-winter plumage, this form can still look dark - though note paler underbody compared with typical first-cycle birds.

Partial autumn moult includes upper tertials, several inner and central mc and inner gc.

Photo: © Dominic Mitchell (www.birdingetc.com).