Ring-billed Gull

What the Ring-billed Gull sounds like

Recorded by Jonathon Jongsma · Call · Powderhorn Park, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via xeno-canto

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When to see the Ring-billed Gull

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Ring-billed Gull

The map shades 45 countries with regular records, and 12 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Ecuador, Denmark, Czechia, Morocco, Aruba, St. Barthélemy, Japan, Jersey, Russia.

About the Ring-billed Gull

The ring-billed gull is a medium-sized gull native to North America, breeding in Canada and the northern Contiguous United States, and wintering mainly in the United States and northern Mexico. The genus name is from Latin Larus which appears to have referred to a gull or other large seabird. The specific delawarensis refers to the Delaware River.

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Easily confused with

American Herring GullLarus smithsonianusThe herring gull is a heavily built large gull with a long powerful bill, full chest and sloping forehead. Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusThe lesser black-backed gull is smaller than the European herring gull. European Herring GullLarus argentatusThe male European herring gull is 60–67 cm (24–26 in) long and weighs 1,050–1,525 g (2.315–3.362 lb), while the female is 55–62 cm (22–24 in) and weighs 710–1,100 g (1.57–2.43 lb).

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