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Mew / Short-billed Gull Larus
brachyrhynchus
Richardson 1831
U.S.A.: Alaska; Canada: Yukon, nw,s Mackenzie s to e British Columbia, n Alberta, c
Saskatchewan and ne Manitoba
split from: Larus canus
insert after: Larus canus
Robert M. Zink, Sievert Rohwer, Alexander V. Andreev & Donna L. Dittmann,
Trans-Beringia comparisons of mitochondrial DNA differentiation
in birds
The Condor 97 (1995): 639-649
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I am not very confident about a proper treatment of the larger gulls
in these pages, and therefore try to deal with them cautiously. It seems for decades
now that breakthrough papers are in press, yet they never seem to materialize. |
The
interest in the larger gulls is big amongst amateur ornithologists, and seems to be on the
rise even. Needless to state that there is some pressure from the gullers amongst us
for adding more taxa here.
Give me real references! |
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Yellow-legged Gull Larus
michahellis
Naumann 1840
France; Iberian Peninsula; Mediterranean basin
split from: Larus cachinnans
insert after: Larus cachinnans
R. Klein & A. Buchheim,
Die westlichen Schwarzmeerküste als Kontaktgebiet zweier
Grossmöwenformen der Larus cachinnans-Gruppe
Vogelwelt 118 (1997): 61-70
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