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2 unusual facts about Yellow-legged Gull


1995 in birding and ornithology

Yellow-legged Gull breeds for the first time in Britain at a site in Southern England.

1998 in birding and ornithology

Caspian Gull and Yellow-legged Gull should be considered separate species according to a paper by Lars Jonsson in the journal Alula.


1453 Yellow River flood

The 1453 Yellow River flood was a natural disaster in the area surrounding Shawan in Shandong, China, during the Ming dynasty.

A. flava

Aesculus flava, the yellow buckeye, common buckeye or sweet buckeye, a tree species native to the Ohio Valley and Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern United States

Aldyr Garcia Schlee

He is most famous for creating the Brazilian national football team's kit of a yellow shirt with a green trim, blue shorts with a white trim.

Andre Marriner

Marriner dismissed City's Pablo Zabaleta six minutes from time for a second yellow card offence.

Anwan Glover

Anwan addressed the press along with D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, saying "We're tired of seeing the yellow police tape" and calling for an end to revenge shootings.

Black Emanuelle

Albertini's later movie, Il Mondo dei sensi di Emy Wong (1977, starring Chai Lee) was released as "Yellow Emanuelle" in some markets.

Black-chinned Whistler

The Black-chinned Whistler is the northernmost member of the Golden Whistler group, being bordered to the south by the Yellow-throated Whistler.

Boaedon capensis

T+Albinos (Tyrosinase positive albinos), also known as caramel albinos are very interesting looking; their body colour is a light, buttery yellow to a pale orange.

Chris Iijima

He, Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto, and "Charlie" Chin, were the members of the group Yellow Pearl; their 1973 album, A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America, (originally recorded on Paredon Records now Smithsonian Folkways was an important part of the development of Asian American identity in the early 1970s.

Denis Walker

L to R: Denis Walker, Lord Sudeley, El Salvador's Foreign Minister, Andrew Smith (yellow tie), Dr Harvey Ward

Destroy Build Destroy

Destroy Build Destroy was a game show hosted by musician Andrew W.K. in which two groups (a "green or blue" team and an "orange or yellow" team, usually grouped by theme such as common interests) of three teenage contestants got to destroy various objects, then built vehicles out of the wreckage.

Devil's Den State Park

Throughout the course of the trail, it passes through a cedar grove, runs parallel, in places to Arkansas Highway 170 and then passes nearby the Yellow Rock Bluff overlook.

Dilute budgerigar mutation

In 1896, George Keartland of the Calvert Expedition to the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia, observed a yellow budgerigar flying wild in a flock on three occasions.

Diselenide

Carbon diselenide, CSe2, a yellow-orange oily liquid with pungent odour

Dymock

Dymock is renowned for its wild daffodils in the spring, and these were probably the inspiration for the line "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" in Frost's poem The Road Not Taken, which was a gentle satire on his great friend, and fellow Dymock Poet, Edward Thomas.

Economy of Thailand

From 25 November to 3 December 2008 the Yellow Shirts, protesting Somchai Wongsawat's prime ministership, seized the two Bangkok airports (Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang) and damaged Thailand's image and economy.

Elegant Tit

The species was formerly included in the much larger genus Parus, and some authorities have suggested that along with the closely related Palawan Tit and Yellow-bellied Tit it should be placed in a new genus, Pardaliparus.

Euchalcia emichi

The larvae had been recorded in Turkey on a yellow flowered Nonea sp.

Flag of Chile

Also, the Flag of Malacca, a state in Malaysia, is similar, having the same colors (except the yellow star and moon) and a similar canton design, although the proportions and color order are different.

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball

In the 1990 tournament, the trio of Kenny Anderson, Dennis Scott, & Brian Oliver (nicknamed "Lethal Weapon 3") carried the Yellow Jackets all the way to the Final Four, where they lost to eventual champion UNLV in the national semi-finals.

Grass Yellow

Eurema hecabe, a species in this genus usually called the Common Grass Yellow or Large Grass Yellow

Haim Watzman

His translations include Tom Segev’s The Seventh Million, Elvis in Jerusalem, and One Palestine Complete, as well as David Grossman’s The Yellow Wind, Sleeping on a Wire, and Death as a Way of Life.

Hotel Chevalier

A man (Jason Schwartzman) lies on a hotel bed in a yellow bathrobe, watching the black-and-white American war film Stalag 17 and reading the newspaper.

Hrvoje Čale

Čale received a yellow card in a three nil victory for the Black Sea-based Trabzonspor.

Islamic Society of North America Elementary School

The facelift added a cream-yellow insulation to the brick building and archways to the design, embodying Islamic architecture - resembling the design of its high school branch.

Joaquín Sorolla

Here, he presents his friend Simarro as a man of science who transmits his wisdom investigating and, in addition, it is the triumph of naturalism, as it recreates the indoor environment of the laboratory, catching the luminous atmosphere produced by the artificial reddish-yellow light of a gas burner that contrasts with the weak mauvish afternoon light that shines through the window.

Kulikalon Lakes

These include Himalayan Snowcocks, Saker Falcons, Himalayan Vultures, Solitary Snipe, Yellow-billed Choughs, Hume's Larks, Sulphur-bellied Warblers, Wallcreepers, White-winged Redstarts, Brown Accentors, Water Pipits, Crimson-winged Finches and White-winged Grosbeaks.

Local Insight Yellow Pages

Windstream Yellow Pages publishes directories for former Alltel wireline, as well as directories for TDS Telecom and KLM Telephone customers, as well numerous smaller independent telephone companies.

Long-tailed Myna

These measurements are just slightly larger on average than the closely related Yellow-faced Myna and indicate the species is around three times as massive as the Common Starling.

Margaretta D'Arcy

D'Arcy also directed a film Yellow Gate Women, a film about the attempts by women of Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp to outwit the British and United States Military at RAF Greenham Common with bolt cutters and legal challenges.

Rashid Mahazi

He started in the right central midfield role and was given a yellow card at the 41st minute of the match following a challenge, logging 79 minutes before being substituted for injury returning Guilherme Finkler.

Réunion Kestrel

From reviewing the evidence, the bird was most probably the émerillon, with the pieds jaunes being either migrant falcons (the only species that might occur in the area, the Sooty Falcon, Eleonora's Falcon and the Peregrine Falcon, are larger than F. duboisi was, if not in overall length, then at least in wingspan) or the juveniles of the marsh harrier, which are distinctly colored and also have yellow feet.

Rick Shiomi

As a stage director, Shiomi has directed at the Asian American Theater Company in San Francisco, InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia, The Bloomington Civic Theatre in Minnesota, St. Paul's SteppingStone Theatre for Youth, and has helmed numerous productions for Mu Performing Arts, including two by David Henry Hwang, the play Yellow Face and Hwang's revisal of Flower Drum Song by Rogers and Hammerstein.

Rusty-breasted Whistler

It is the westernmost member of the Golden Whistler group, being bordered to the east by the Black-chinned and Yellow-throated Whistlers, and to the south by the Australian Golden Whistler.

Sokratis Papastathopoulos

He became the first player to be sent off at UEFA Euro 2012 during the opening game of the tournament against co-hosts Poland, after receiving two yellow cards, following what pundits decried as two poor decisions by the referee Carlos Velasco Carballo.

Spoon Sports

The racing versions of the 2001 S2000 and 2003 Honda Fit models (both in Spoon's then-current blue-and-yellow livery) were featured in Gran Turismo 4.

Starship Children's Health

Each of its five levels is painted a different colour, with a symbolic meaning: Aqua for the Pacific Ocean; Orange for land; Blue for sky; Yellow for sunshine; and Pink for health.

Stoney LaRue

He befriended Jason Boland and Cody Canada and the three moved into the infamous "Yellow House" where they would have late night jam sessions and entertain other various musicians around the town, like Mike McClure and Brandon Jenkins.

Stracciatella

As translated by Jeremy Parzen, Martino's recipe for zanzarelli reads: "To make ten servings: take eight eggs and a half libra of grated cheese, and a grated loaf of bread and mix together. Then take a pot of meat broth made yellow with saffron and place over heat; and when it begins to boil, pour the mixture into a pot and stir with a spoon. When the dish has begun to thicken, remove from heat and serve in bowls, topped with spices."

The Del-Byzanteens

However, "Girl's Imagination" was featured on the Beggars Banquet's 1999 compilation Pspyched!, and again on the Gomma compilation Anti-NY in 2001, while "My Hands Are Yellow (from the job that i do)" was released on New York Noise Vol 2, in 2003.

The Strange Familiar

“I was in seventh grade when I saw Jeff’s band playing Pearl Jam's ‘Yellow Ledbetter’ at our school dance,” Leyden recalls.

The Yellow Foal

The Yellow Foal (Hungarian: Sárga csikó) is a 1913 Hungarian silent drama film directed by Félix Vanyl and starring Lili Berky, Gyula Nagy and Victor Varconi.

Violet Crumble

Sydney Kings, whose primary colours are purple and yellow, are often referred to as the "Violet Crumbles" due to their constant under performance in the National Basketball League during the 1990s.

Wagtail

The African Pied Wagtail (and possibly the Mekong Wagtail) diverged prior to the massive radiation of the white-bellied black-throated and most yellow-bellied forms, all of which took place during the late Piacenzian (early Late Pliocene), c.

Yellow Honeyeater

The Yellow Honeyeater hovers in front of the spectacular flowers of the wild Bottlebrush Orchid or Coelandria smillieae which appear in northern Queensland between August and November, while feeding upon the nectar and pollinating the flowers.

Yellow Mountain

Huangshan in China, also known as "Yellow Mountain" in English

Yellow Shirts

People's Alliance for Democracy or Yellow Shirts, a Thai movement protesting against Thaksin Shinawatra

Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher

The range of the Yellow-browed Tody-Flycatcher is mainly in the southern Amazon Basin, and in the east limited by the Amazon River; in the southeast, its range extends eastward including Ilha de Marajo and the last downstream region of only the Tocantins River, of the Araguaia-Tocantins River system.

Yellow-headed Blackbird

The only regions of the United States where these blackbirds are permanent residents are the San Joaquin Valley and the Lower Colorado River Valley of Arizona and California.

Yellow-throated Whistler

Among the members of the Golden Whistler group, the Yellow-throated Whistler is bordered to the north by the Black-chinned Whistler, to the west by the Rusty-breasted Whistler, and to the south by the Australian Golden Whistler.


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