Yellow-legged
Gull - Larus michahellis
(last update: October 08 2013)
Coordinators:
Delfín González
Gabriel Martín
Antonio Gutierrez
Amir Ben Dov
Mars Muusse
Larus michahellis - 3CY December
This website deals with the Yellow-legged Gull taxon michahellis, which is a common migrant from July to December in NW Europe. After extensive expansion of the breeding population during the last three decades, it nowadays can be found breeding in Belgium, the Netherlands and Britain in mixed couples with both Herring Gull (argenteus) and Lesser Black-backed Gull (graellsii). There are subtle differences between the populations from the Mediterranean, Atlantic coast of Portugal and Morocco and from the islands in the Atlantic. Most pronounced differences can be found in the taxon atlantis, now regarded as full species by some authors and birds along the Atlantic coast of the Iberian peninsular: lusitanius. Both atlantis and lusitanius are treated in their own sections on this website.
Yellow-legged Gull lusitanius 3CY F008 December 30 2010, Olhão, Portugal. Picture: Thijs Valkenburg.
Yellow-legged Gull lusitanius F179 3CY, December 03 2014, Portimão, Portugal. Picture: Maarten van Kleinwee.
Yellow-legged
Gull lusitanius F181 3CY, December 05 2014, Quarteira, Portugal. Picture: Maarten van Kleinwee.
Yellow-legged Gull michahellis 3CY HES M000091 December 12 2008, Westkapelle, the Netherlands. Picture: Ies Meulmeester.
Yellow-legged Gull michahellis 3CY HES M03xx11 December 24 2014, Westkapelle, the Netherlands. Picture: Corstiaan Beeke.
Yellow-legged Gull michahellis 99AH 3CY, December
14 2014, Zagreb, Croatia. Photo: Mladen Ban.
Yellow-legged Gull michahellis 741H 3CY, December 18 2013, Jakuševec landfill, Zagreb, Croatia. Picture: ringing team Luka Jurinovic.
Yellow-legged Gull michahellis S1XX 3CY, December 20 2008, Simrishamn, Sweden. Picture: Jörgen Bernsmo.
Yellow-legged
Gull michahellis 3CY, December 14 2003, Westkapelle, the
Netherlands (51.33N 03.25E).