My wife, the children and I found our first group of juvenile Ring-billeds on the 4th of July this year. As has become our habit for the last few summers, the family and I specifically go looking for juvenile Ring-billeds together in late June and early July - a somewhat peculiar family tradition to your average Joe.
We literally scour local lakes, parks and mall parking lots seeing who can spot a juvenile first. This year we spotted them at the same time. First one, then four, then eight and finally a high count of 11.
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Juvenile Ring-billed Gull. Blue Island, IL. 04 July 2013. |
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Juvenile Ring-billed Gull. Blue Island, IL. 04 July 2013. |
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Juvenile Ring-billed Gull. Blue Island, IL. 04 July 2013.
My personal earliest "inland" juvenile Ring-billeds is an individual from 16 June 2012, a single bird in mall parking lot in Tinley Park, IL.
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