The Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis breeds widely across North America and has been claimed several times in Japan, and just once from South Korea - a second-winter seen at Suncheon bay on May 3rd 1997 (Nial Moores).

(All photographs © Charlie Moores.)

Photos of adults also online: go to Adult Ring-billed Gulls

Juvenile/1st Winter, San Francisco, Oct 2003.

Juvenile/1st Winter, Miami, Nov 2004.

Juvenile/1st Winter, Chicago, Oct 2003.

Juvenile/1st Winter, San Francisco, Oct 2003.

Juvenile/1st Winter, Chicago, Oct 2003.

Juvenile/1st Winter, Miami, Nov 2004.

1st Winter, San Francisco, Oct 2003.

1st Winter, San Francisco, Oct 2003.

1st Winter, Toronto, late-Dec 2003.

1st Winter, Toronto, late-Dec 2003.

1st Winter, Toronto, late-Dec 2003.

1st Winter, Toronto, late-Dec 2003.

Central Park, New York, late-March 2004.

Central Park, New York, late-March 2004.

Central Park, New York, late-March 2004.

Central Park, New York, late-March 2004.

2nd Winter, Toronto, late-Dec 2003.

2nd Winter, Toronto, late-Dec 2003.

Central Park, New York, late-March 2004.