Yellow-legged
Gull- Geelpootmeeuw (L. michahellis): 1cy August
(last update: 08 december 2003)
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Photo 1: Yellow-legged Gull 1cy August 25 2000, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.
By late August, Yellow-legged Gull has already moulted many mantle
feathers and scapulars. Here, a new median covert has been replaced as well and a few new lesser
coverts can be found in the lower lesser covert row. By late August, only a few Lesser
Black-backed Gulls show this advanced moult, but Herring Gull would nearly never show this advanced
strategy in the wing coverts (and moult these wing coverts as late as April next
year). The bill is already slightly pale at the lower mandible, paler than
suspected.
Note wear in the tertials, where central tertials almost lack the complete white
fringe, only leaving the protruding shaft.
