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Yellow-legged Gull

Yellow-legged Gull - Juvenile

Photographer

» Ruben Barone Tosco

Location

» Las Galletas (Arona), Tenerife

Country image taken

» Canary Islands

Date

» September, 2019

Equipment

» Pentax K-m, with zoom Tamron 70-300 mm

Bird Species

»Larus michahellis - Yellow-legged Gull

Bird Species (French)

»Goéland leucophée

Bird Family

»Laridae - Gulls, Terns, Skimmers

Bird Group

»Charadriiformes Gull, Skua, Tern, Wader

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» In the Canary Islands, and also in the Azores, Madeira and Selvagens archipelagos, the subspecies present is Larus michahellis atlantis. It is very common and spreading in the last decades. There is some controversy with the taxonomic status of the subspecies atlantis, which was originally described with material from the Azores and Canary Islands.

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