Yellow-legged Gull
Larus michahellis
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 46,574
- Most observed in
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The yellow-legged gull or western yellow-legged gull is a large gull found in 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. The genus name is from Latin Larus which appears to have referred to a gull or other large seabird, and the species name honours the German zoologist Karl Michahelles.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Yellow-legged gull”.