So ring-billed gulls are quite identifiable. However, what I’ve described applies only to adults, the ivory-headed beauties with winter speckles of brown on head and nape.

Range still expanding in many areas, and today the ring-billed may be the most populous gull in North America, with an estimated 3 to 4 million individuals (70 percent nesting in Canada).

A Canadian goose and gull recovered at an animal care center after they both ingested discarded pills left on the grass at an Orange County park. 24/7 Live San Francisco East Bay South Bay ...

Gulls, like this ring-billed gull, are interesting, fun to watch, and challenging to identify. Photo Credit: Kathy Adams Clark. Restricted use.

SAN ANGELO — I get electronic mail — at times, lots of it. ... Franklin’s gull (Leucophaeus pipixcan), ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis) and herring gull (Larus argentatus).

Yet no matter their age, ring-billed gulls are lighter in color than the laughing gulls. Ring-billed gulls are relatively common during winter at inland lakes, fields and grocery store parking lots.

Obviously, the gulls hanging out at Blue Marsh Lake and Lake Ontelaunee who have lunch at local landfills, can’t be sea gulls, because they aren’t out at sea. Some of them may have neve… ...

Obviously, the gulls hanging out at Blue Marsh Lake and Lake Ontelaunee who have lunch at local landfills, can’t be sea gulls, because they aren’t out at sea. Some of them may have neve… ...

Obviously, the gulls hanging out at Blue Marsh Lake and Lake Ontelaunee who have lunch at local landfills, can’t be sea gulls, because they aren’t out at sea. Some of them may have neve… ...

The four most numerous bird species in the world as listed by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) — house sparrow, barn swallow, European starling and ring-billed gull — are found in ...