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[hawkhenries]

This photo is from another non-birding forum. Can anyone ID thses gulls?

[Liam]

All Ring-billed it looks like.
I wanna kiss a gull.

[hawkhenries]

Liam it looks like the bill is dark at the end rather than having a ring on it. Does it look that way to you? And what about the black band on the tail??

[hawkhenries]

Does anyone else have ideas? The black band on the tail ~ is it seen on juvie ring billed gulls? I may be wrong but adults have white tails...

[folkeye]

No idea on the birds, but I could easily imagine her nose being very very red the next day if that bird misses Very cool picture though.

I remember going to the beach as a kid and tossing food into the air and thinking it was the most awesome thing ever the birds would catch it.

[Liam]

Do you know where this was taken? The Ring-billed Gull is the only gull on the East coast with a black-tipped bill. Younger adults do show a black terminal band.

[psweet]

These are Black-tailed Gulls, from the NW Pacific. Ring-billed Gulls would show either several complete tail bands, or a broken subterminal band, depending on the age. If you look at the eyes, you can tell these are adult birds, which limits us to Black-tailed and Band-tailed. Band-tailed have dark eyes and a much darker back.