Animals / Bird

Ring-billed gull

Larus delawarensis · Laridae

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.

Where the Ring-billed gull lives

Recorded in United States of America and Canada (North America).

Most records fall in California, Illinois, Florida, Colorado, New York and Texas.

See the Ring-billed gull’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 11,233,248 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.