Yellow-legged Gulls Larus
michahellis
On this
page some pictures I (and others) took of YLG are shown.
Typical
juvenile in July. Note the white uppertail
with the black tailband with the tapering ends
Juvenile moulting to 1st winter. Scheveningen,
august 1999 Picture by Nils van Duivendijk.
This
quite large YLG (juvenile, moulting into 1st winter plumage) was photographed
at Eemshaven (Gr.) on
Juvenile moulting to 1st winter plumage.
Picture
taken by Theo Bakker at Eemshaven
(Gr.) on 8 September 1999
The pictures
above and on the left were taken on 18 September 1999 at Wijster, Drenthe, and no, this isn't a Pontic
Gull L. cachinnans but a small and elongated 1st winter YLG. A cachinnans
would show a completely snow-white head and a light-grey mantle and scapulars
with a different marking i.e. narrow shaft and anchor, whereas this bird shows
a typical bold double anchor. When it flew up it showed a typical YLG-tail (see
top photo) and darkish underwings.
1st
winter YLG, Wijster, 31 October 1999
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