Gulls are a little scary. They frighten me. I don’t mean literally, in a Hitchcockian sense. The nightmare comes in trying to ...

Medium-size, 3-cycle gull with sloping head ... Legs often duller and more greenish in winter. The California has relatively longer and narrower wings, which from above have a larger and blunter ...

The most widespread pink-legged gull in North America, the herring is common in the east and mainly a winter visitor in the west. Hybrids can be locally common (mainly in the wescat). Polytypic.