The most widespread pink-legged gull in North America, the herring is common in the east ... with slightly paler upperparts and wing tips. First-year “vegas” are told from bulkier slaty ...

Ring-billed gulls leave the province in the winter but come back to nest in the summer. The tidal mud flats at Bellevue ...

This is the common and familiar “sea­gull” across much of North America ... more evenly white on the ring-billed). The first-year Cali­fornia is brownish overall, unlike the ring-billed ...

Ringbills commonly mix with herring gulls, which lack the black ring on their bill, and also have a much larger wingspan stretching nearly 60 inches.