Yellow-footed Gull

Larus livens Dwight, 1919

Yellow-footed Gull, Larus livens, is a gull of the Gulf of California in North America and Middle America, breeding on islets from Roca Consag to La Paz Bay and ranging outside the breeding season to the Salton Sea in southern California and across the gulf in north-west Mexico. It is a large gull and was once treated as part of the western gull. Adults have a white head, dark slate upperparts and wings, a thick yellow bill and yellow legs, while first-winter birds have pink legs. It was described by Dwight in 1919.

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Laridae — Gulls, Terns, Skimmers

Breeding range

North America, Middle America: islets in Gulf of California, from Roca Consag to La Paz Bay

Nonbreeding range

to Salton Sea (sc California) and throughout Gulf of California (nw Mexico)