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Ring-billed Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Larus delawarensis
Aves
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
10-16 yrs
Size
Medium
Diet
Omnivore
Activity
Diurnal
Social
Colony
Biome
Freshwater wetland
Range
North America
Movement
Flight
Breeding
Egg-laying
Defense
Flight
Status
Common

About

The Ring-billed Gull is a familiar mid-sized gull across North America, easily identified by the black ring encircling its yellow bill; it is highly adaptable, thriving in parking lots, landfills, and fast-food lots far from any coastline.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    egg
    A clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
  2. 2.
    hatchling
    A naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
  3. 3.
    juvenile
    A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
  4. 4.
    adult
    Fully grown with adult plumage.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Laridae
Genus
Larus
Species
Larus delawarensis