Medium-sized bulky gull. Breeding birds are uniquely marked with a dark gray body, a white head, and a red black-tipped bill.
Nonbreeding adults are gray overall with a darker gray back and a red bill with a black tip.
During the nonbreeding season, Heerman's Gulls typically hunt offshore for schooling fish or loaf on beaches, rocky shorelines, or estuaries.
Medium-sized gray gull unlike any other gull. Nonbreeding birds have a red bill with a black tip.
Second winter gulls are smooth brown overall with a bicolored bill.
Juveniles have a sooty-brown head and a scalloped looking back. Note heavy bicolored bill.
Smooth gray overall with a white head, gray rump, and black tail.
First winter birds are dark brown overall.
A medium-sized gull with long wings, a fairly rounded head, and a straight, relatively long bill that is less heavy and angled than bills of larger gulls.
Larger than a Mew Gull, slightly smaller than a California Gull.
crow-sizedGulls, Terns, and Skimmers(Order: Charadriiformes, Family: Laridae)
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