The larger California (commonly occurs alongside the ring-billed in the west) is a 4-cycle gull with a stouter bill and dark eyes in all ages. The adult California has slightly darker medium gray ...

Almost everyone can recognize a sea gull. The neatly patterned gray and white birds are fixtures of the seashore. Perhaps that’s why central Ohioans are surprised to see so many of the feathered ...

"In fact, ring-billed gulls were very rare in the Great Lakes in the early 1900s." As chicken eggs replaced gull eggs and feathers fell out of fashion, ring-billed gulls rebounded, she said.

So, birders like myself prefer to call them gulls or specify the kind, like ring-billed gull or herring gull. But seagull is so widely used that it’s like trying to hold back the ocean’s tides ...

Ring-billed Gull in Hamilton Harbour, Hamilton, Canada, with steel-plant smokestacks in the background. The smokestacks emit polycyclic hydrocarbons that have been shown to induce heritable ...

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 ...