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Scientific Name: Larus cachinnans Pallas, 1811
English Name: Yellow-legged Gull, Caspian Gull
Local/Bangla Name: Holdepa Gangchil (হলদে পা গাঙচিল)
Yellow-legged Gull, Caspian Gull - Holdepa Gangchil (হলদে পা গাঙচিল) - Larus cachinnans - Type: Marine_birds

Photo: Birds of the World

Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Laridae
Description:
Challenging to distinguish from Herring and Yellow-legged gulls without closely examining plumage characteristics. Slender-legged, slender-billed birds may be conspicuous due to their appearance. Other helpful traits are a flattened crown, relatively small dark eyes, and a typically unstreaked skull. Adult wingtip (primary) feathers have long white tongues extending into the black tips. Pale underwings are predominant on juveniles.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Rare winter visitor to Bangladesh. Recorded from the coast of Chittagong.
Environment:
Marine, Terrestrial
Main References:

Siddiqui KU, Islam MA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondker M, Rahman MM (eds.) (2008) Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 26. Birds. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka. 662 pp.

Other References:

Burger, J., M. Gochfeld, G. M. Kirwan, and E. F. J. Garcia (2020). Caspian Gull (Larus cachinnans), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.casgul2.01

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