(2 images) Yellow-legged Gull (L. michahellis) 1cy, September
22 2002, Le Portel, France.
A 1cy Yellow-legged Gull with an atypical jizz:
short-legged, round-headed and thin-billed. The third tertail has been replaced
in the left wing, but is still present (although loosely) in the right wing. All
the wing-coverts are still juvenile. The
majority of the scapulars are replaced for second generation feathers and only
the rear lowest scapulars are still juvenile.
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