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| Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) Gulls, Terns and Skimmers (Laridae) | |
| Middelhavssølvmåge Gaviota Patiamarillas | |
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2387
(1 photos)
2016-10-25 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis Adult. Villa di Borghese. Weakly streaked head in winter. The strongly colored red eyering is classic for the species. Also adult birds can show a faint rest of black on the bill. |
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2388
(2 photos)
2016-10-25 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis Adult. Villa di Borghese. An individual with very much black in the hand.P10 has a black subterminal band, and also a hint of black on P4. The dark spots on the bill, I think, has to do with non-breeding season rather than age-related. |
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2390
(1 photos)
2016-10-25 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis Adult. Villa di Borghese. The red gonys spot is limited to the lower mandible which is normal for this species. Also here remnants of dark on the bill. |
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2391
(1 photos)
2016-10-25 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis Adult. Villa di Borghese. Looks like an individual with very much white on the P10. |
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2392
(2 photos)
2016-10-25 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis Adult. Villa di Borghese. Adult type. Characteristic eye ring, bill and hand. |
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2393
(3 photos)
2016-10-25 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis Adult. Villa di Borghese. Almost identically to 2388, or perhaps the same bird. |
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2394
(1 photos)
2016-10-25 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis Adult. Adult. Individual with all white tip to P10, and nothing dark on P4. |
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2398
(1 photos)
2016-10-25 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis Adult. Villa di Borghese. Adult type with stronger streaking on the head. |
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2399
(1 photos)
2016-10-25 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis Adult. Villa di Borghese. Growing P10 with black subterminal band. |
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2400
(1 photos)
2016-10-25 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis Adult. Villa di Borghese. Leg color on an adult bird. |
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2403
(7 photos)
2016-10-25 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis Adult. Villa di Borghese. At first I took this bird for an abnormal individual because of the strange eye position in the first photo, but now I think it is a normal ability the gulls have, to move the two eyes independently. Also here short legs. Rather than an age characteristic I believe that the black on the bill is a winter trait, expecting that the red gonys spot is stronger in summer too. |
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2404
(1 photos)
2016-10-25 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis Adult. Villa di Borghese. |
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2395
(3 photos)
2016-10-25 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis First calendar year. Villa di Borghese. Broad well-defined black tail band with pure white tail base, strong bill and rather whitish underside with only a few dark speckles on the breast are good indications of this species. |
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2396
(7 photos)
2016-10-25 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis First calendar year. Villa di Borghese. Strong mostly blackish bill, square head with dark around the eye, well-marked black tail band, tertials almost uniform and bright underside. A worn individual with remiges not molted yet. |
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2397
(7 photos)
2016-10-25 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis First calendar year. Villa di Borghese. Very much like 2395, but appears shaggy as if something has happened to it. |
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2402
(1 photos)
2016-10-25 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis First calendar year. Villa di Borghese. Dark tail, whitish body and dark brown underwing. |
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2386
(1 photos)
2016-10-25 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis Villa di Borghese. Adult. Only the hand gives indications of it being this species. Very much black with narrow well-defined white tips to P5-P9. P10 has the typical elongated white tip. Common in Rome. |
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2389
(3 photos)
2016-10-27 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis Forum Romano. Another adult type with remnants of dark on the bill. |
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2401
(1 photos)
2016-10-27 Rome, Italy Subspecies: michahellis Forum Romano. Adult bird. It's alert and stretched to the limit. Still you get the feeling of rather short legs which is also a trait of this species. |
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4158
(7 photos)
Same bird: 41
2022-08-23 Amager Strandpark, Denmark First calendar year. Attracted by picnic food. Large robust individual with all the classic traits to id it as such. Dark around the eye, whitish head and pale underside, dark underwing, faint window in hand, dark centers to outer coverts, strong dark tail band narrowing a bit laterally, tertials with narrow whitish edges, several scapulars molted. |
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4161
(15 photos)
Same bird: 41
2022-08-28 Amager Strandpark, Denmark First calendar year. Attracted by picnic food. Also seen 5 days earlier in the same spot. Acting dominating toward the other gulls, vigorously protecting the apples, that it apparently preferred to the other fruit items that had been discarded. |