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 November
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 michahellis 3CY NT83 November 23 2003, Rosas, NE Spain. 
Yellow-legged Gull michahellis 3CY I204 November 08 2006, Chioggia, Venezia, Italy.
Picture: Menotti Passarella.
Yellow-legged Gull michahellis 1CY & 3CY CC-9273 September 01 2006, IJmuiden & November 15 2008, Westkapelle, the Netherlands.
Yellow-legged Gull michahellis 3CY, November 23 2003, Séte, S France. Picture: Ruud Altenburg. 
Yellow-legged Gull michahellis 3CY, November 23 2003, Séte, S France. Picture: Ruud Altenburg. 
Yellow-legged Gull michahellis 3CY, November 23 2003, Séte, S France. Picture: Ruud Altenburg. 
Yellow-legged
Gull michahellis 3CY, November 24-26 2006, Etaples / Boulogne-sur-Mer, NW France.
Yellow-legged
Gull michahellis 3CY, November 24 2003, Séte, S France. 
Yellow-legged
Gull michahellis 3CY, November 12 2001, Westkapelle, the
Netherlands. A 3CY with three brown greater coverts and
small tips on the primaries. The black bill-band runs back to the base
along the culmen.