Yellow-legged Gull

Larus michahellis

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The Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis), sometimes referred to as Western Yellow-legged Gull (to distinguish it from eastern populations of yellow-legged large white-headed gulls), is a large gull of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, which has only recently achieved wide recognition as a distinct species. It was formerly treated as a subspecies of either the Caspian Gull L. cachinnans, or more broadly as a subspecies of the Herring Gull L. argentatus. It is named after...

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  1. (c) Jörg Hempel, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Jörg Hempel, http://www.flickr.com/photos/32023375@N06/4255637229
  2. (c) Wikipedia, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larus_michahellis

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