Species boundaries in the Herring Gull and Lesser Black-Backed Gull complex

Jon Martin Collinson; D.T. Parkin; Alan Glasgow Knox; G. Sangster; L. Svensson

Species boundaries in the Herring Gull and Lesser Black-Backed Gull complex

Jon Martin Collinson, D.T. Parkin, Alan Glasgow Knox, G. Sangster, L. Svensson

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The BOURC Taxonomic Sub-committee (TSC) recently published recommendations for the taxonomy of the Herring Gull and Lesser Black-backed Gull complex (Sangster et al. 2007). Six species were recognised: Herring Gull Larus argentatus, Lesser Black-backed Gull L. fuscus, Caspian Gull L. cachinnans, Yellow-legged Gull L. michahellis, Armenian Gull L. armenicus and American Herring Gull L. smithsonian us. This paper reviews the evidence under/ying these decisions and highlights some of the areas of uncertainty.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	340-363
Number of pages	24
Journal	British Birds
Volume	101
Issue number	7
Publication status	Published - Jul 2008

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Species boundaries in the Herring Gull and Lesser Black-Backed Gull complex

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