Herring Gull (Larus argentatus)
This is the common large sea gull of much of our interior and coasts
and a familiar urban bird; a gray mantled, black wing tipped gull seen
in garbage dumps and harbors in all U.S. coastal cities. Oceans,
bays, estuaries, beaches, fields, inland lakes, reservoirs and large
streams... all provide habitat for this inspirer of "Jonathan Livingstone
Seagull."
His free wheeling grace in the sky and his raucous yet lonely keeowe,
ke-ow manage to bring beauty to even the most odoriferous city
dump.
It breeds from the Arctic to the northern states and winters from the
Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.