Yellow-legged Gull - Larus michahellis

(last update: October 08 2013)

Coordinators:
Delfín González
Gabriel Martín
Antonio Gutierrez
Amir Ben Dov
Mars Muusse

Yellow-legged Gull michahellis U9HF 1CY-2CY, June 18 2010 & September 24 2011, Israel. Pictures: Amir Ben Dov.

Local ringed michahellis in the East Mediterranean. Ringed on 31 May 2010.

below: michahellis U9HF 2CY, September 24 2011, Ashdod, Israel. Pictures: Amir Ben Dov.

Partial autumn moult includes several inner coverts.

below: michahellis U9HF 1CY, June 18 2010, Tel Aviv - University Zool. Garden, Israel. Pictures: Amir Ben Dov.

Note double sub-terminal band on outer-web of R6 and lack of typical wedge-shaped tail-band (here, more straight as in Herring Gull / Caspian Gull).