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European herring gull of the omissus variant in Ystad 2020.

An adult pair, where the one on the right is an Omissus.

Omissus is a variant of the European herring gull. It is largely similar to a common herring gull, but unlike the common species, it has yellow legs.

There is very little research and documentation about the omissus variant, some authors believe that it may be a species of its own.

Omissus can be confused with the yellow-legged gull, but the omissus does not have as distinctly bright yellow legs as the yellow-legged gull.

Omissus was first described in 1928 by the Russian ornithologist Theodor Pleske.

References

• Omissus 1.
• Omissus 2.
• Avibase.
• Omissus in Scotland 1995. Archived 2022-09-04 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Link to scientific articles about Omissus.