#0723 · 🐦 birds

Yellow-legged Gull

🇳🇱 Geelpootmeeuw ·Larus michahellis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

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 . The genus name is...

base stats

NL sightings 96iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 81,902iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).