This is the common and familiar “sea­gull” across much of North America—from coastal beaches to malls in the middle of the continent.

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.

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.

Many years, ring-billed gulls are the most common wintering gull in Kansas, having moved southward from nesting areas in central Canada and some places in the American West. Like many birds ...

The most abundant gull here is the ring-billed gull, which in most years can be found at San Angelo from October to mid-April. Annual censuses done in late December have totaled 419 to 3,200 ring ...

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

Although inland neighborhoods harbor the wintering ring-billed gulls, others crowd along the coast alongside the ever-present laughing gulls.

The commonest gull here in Berks, by far, is the ring-billed gull and you can see in the picture the black line on either side of its bill that makes a ring completely around it that gives it its ...

It takes a ring-billed gull three years to reach adulthood; a herring gull, four years. They begin life cloaked in dingy brown and each year molt into progressively tidier white and gray plumage.

The ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis) is easily the most recognizable of the eight species of the genus Larus that inhabit Texas at one time or another throughout the year.

The commonest gull here in Berks, by far, is the ring-billed gull and you can see in the picture the black line on either side of its bill that makes a ring completely around it that gives it its ...

The commonest gull here in Berks, by far, is the ring-billed gull and you can see in the picture the black line on either side of its bill that makes a ring completely around it that gives it its ...