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Yellow-legged gull

Larus michahellis

Description:

This gull is the biggest that we have in Porto city

Habitat:

Spotted in Porto city river Douro bank.

Notes:

They are now one of the icons of the city

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12 Comments

This one is well-behaved,she goes everyday ask for some thing at the restaurant next door to our shop,but i saw some stlling food from tourists plates,i presume they are concerned with tourists health ;-)

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 4 years ago

No more chips for him !

Thanks armadeus.4 for your kind words

armadeus.4
armadeus.4 7 years ago

Fantastic series António!!! Love the close ups. Thank you for sharing :)

Thanks JamesPriest2 for your kind words

JamesPriest2
JamesPriest2 7 years ago

Great pics

@Thanks Ashley :-)
@I agreed with that too triggsturner :-)

AshleyT
AshleyT 7 years ago

Lovely series, Antonio!

triggsturner
triggsturner 7 years ago

My pleasure to help out Antonio. Gulls can be ridiculously hard at times. You took some great images of this one.

Thanks triggsturner for the correction :-) i think you are rigth,gulls are more dificult to ID than at first site we could think,thanks again
Thanks Hema for your nice comment :-)

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 7 years ago

Beautiful .

triggsturner
triggsturner 7 years ago

Hi Antonio. I hope you don't mind me offering an observation but looking at your images of this gull and for the sake of accuracy, it appears to have a red eye ring and yellow legs which might suggest Yellow legged Gull?

Porto, Porto, Portugal

Spotted on Jan 31, 2016
Submitted on Aug 17, 2016

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