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Ring-billed Gull

Larus delawarensis
RBGU · Laridae · Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
Wetland provisional · from avonet
9heard

The ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis) is a medium-sized gull. 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.

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mean confidence
45–49 in wingspanestimated

Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)

Ring-billed Gull
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9Detections
9Days heard
0.58Mean confidence
3 AugFirst heard
24 SepLast heard
7,521Stations worldwide

By hour of day

00061218

Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.

Recent days

3 Aug 24 Sep

Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.

Where heard

At home9 detections
On outings0 detections

Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.

Where it lives

Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.

Leaflet · CARTO · range polygons from BirdWeather

Recordings

Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.

2026-08-12 06:46
9 s
0.78
2026-09-01 18:16
9 s
0.64
2026-08-11 18:55
9 s
0.62
2026-08-26 19:12
9 s
0.60
2026-09-04 16:34
9 s
0.54
2026-08-28 22:58
9 s
0.53
2026-09-23 12:24
9 s
0.51
2026-09-24 19:01
9 s
0.51
2026-08-03 04:46
9 s
0.51
Station PUC-29278 on BirdWeather Data updated 27 Sep, 11:30am Archive