Yellow Legged Gull
Bird name: Yellow Legged Gull
Latin: Larus michahellis
Other: Goéland leucophée (Fr), Gabian • Gaviota patiamarilla (Es) • Gabbiano reale zampegialle (It)
Family: Laridae • Gulls
Range: Mediterranean coastline
The Yellow-legged Gull is a large gull, common in Monaco and along the Côte d’Azur in the summer.
It is closely related, and similar in appearance to, the Herring Gull and Caspian Gull, and even more closely related to the Great Black Backed Gull and Armenian Gull.
The adult (4th year) Yellow-legged Gull has black wing tips with small white windows at tips, grey upper wing, yellow bill and legs, with a large red spot on beak, pale irises with red eye-ring and red gape.
Juveniles (1st years) have dark beaks and mottled brown feathers, pink legs and feet, and dark irises.
2nd years have less brown in feathers, dark bill and irises.
3rd years have some yellow and some black on bill, pale yellow legs, pale irises, and quite a bit of grey adult feathers.
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Latin: Larus michahellis
Other: Goéland leucophée (Fr), Gabian • Gaviota patiamarilla (Es) • Gabbiano reale zampegialle (It)
Family: Laridae • Gulls
Range: Mediterranean coastline
The Yellow-legged Gull is a large gull, common in Monaco and along the Côte d’Azur in the summer.
It is closely related, and similar in appearance to, the Herring Gull and Caspian Gull, and even more closely related to the Great Black Backed Gull and Armenian Gull.
The adult (4th year) Yellow-legged Gull has black wing tips with small white windows at tips, grey upper wing, yellow bill and legs, with a large red spot on beak, pale irises with red eye-ring and red gape.
Juveniles (1st years) have dark beaks and mottled brown feathers, pink legs and feet, and dark irises.
2nd years have less brown in feathers, dark bill and irises.
3rd years have some yellow and some black on bill, pale yellow legs, pale irises, and quite a bit of grey adult feathers.
January
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February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December