Medium-sized gull with a shorter bill. Breeding adults have black band across their yellow bill, yellow legs, a pale eye, and a pale gray back.
Nonbreeding adults like this one have only a little bit of tan streaking on the head or neck, but other can have more tan streaking. Otherwise nonbreeding adults look similar to breeding adults with a black band across their yellow bill and a pale eye.
Medium-sized gull with fairly small bill. Breeding adults typically have clean white head, pale eye, and yellow legs.
Second winter gulls have tan streaking on the neck, head, and chest (like this one), but others have relatively little. Note the black band across the yellow bill.
First winter birds start acquiring gray feathers on their back, but still retain some brown feathers on their wings and have variable amounts of brown streaking and spotting on their head, neck, and underparts.
Juveniles are a patchwork of brown and white with a dark bill that is most often pink at the base.
In flight, note the small white spot on the tips of the outer primaries and relatively little black on the primaries.
Juveniles in flight ave dark primaries and mottled inner wings with a wide, dark tail band.
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The Ring-billed is a medium-sized gull with a fairly short, slim bill. When the gull perches, its long, slender wings extend well past its square-tipped tail. In flight, the birds move lightly on easy flaps of their fairly slender wings.
Roughly pigeon-sized body (but with long wings), smaller than Herring Gull
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Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers(Order: Charadriiformes, Family: Laridae)
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