Notes from a Lazy Urban Homesteader & Amateur Naturalist
I saw this cutie a few days ago while walking by the lake. It’s younger than the previous juvenile ring-billed gull I wrote about last week, just a few months old and getting ready for its first winter. Read more …
I promised you a juvenile ring-billed gull yesterday, and now I’m delivering. Ring-billed gulls take three years to reach maturity and have fascinating variations in color and pattern as they mature. Read more …
Ring-billed gulls are called ring-billed gulls because of the black ring around their bill, which they develop after living through their first winter. They make each one of the contiguous forty-eight United States and Puerto Rico their home at one time of the year or another. Read more …