🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Yellow-legged Gull live?

Larus michahellis has 1,831,498 records in 87 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from Spain.

Yellow-legged Gull
Yellow-legged Gull — Alexis Lours / CC BY 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesLaridaeLarus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Spain 705,435
France 311,809
Portugal 260,134
Italy 128,371
Türkiye 59,125
Greece 56,242
United Kingdom 40,520
Switzerland 39,035
Germany 32,429
Bulgaria 26,239
Croatia 19,989
Gibraltar 19,665
Netherlands 19,351
Austria 13,486
Belgium 10,827
Israel 10,757
Morocco 10,490
Serbia 7,334
Slovenia 7,037
Sweden 6,426
Romania 6,246
Cyprus 5,883
Hungary 4,943
Georgia 2,355
Czechia 2,199
Denmark 2,134
Ukraine 2,050
Malta 2,033
Montenegro 1,891
Slovakia 1,691
Albania 1,590
Algeria 1,502
Tunisia 1,462
Russia 1,416
Poland 1,309
Vatican City 998
Norway 737
Bosnia & Herzegovina 682
Monaco 639
Lebanon 590

Showing the top 40 of 87 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.