"If there's a positive to come out of this distressing incident, we hope public awareness of black-billed gulls and their ...

While monotypic, birds in the south average smaller and tend to show bare dark grayish skin below eye (similar in shape to the yellow skin on yellow-billed magpie). Black bill and range ...

Tail variable: base whitish (bleaching to white); broad blackish distal band; often dark wash basally (most heavily marked birds ... the ring-billed); a red gonys spot as well as a black bill ...