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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Larus delawarensis

Ring-Billed Gull

WoRMS 148797ITIS 176830key itis:176830
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2026-08-05: worms_id 148797 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

Silhouette · Jason Dilworth · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Larus delawarensis
Ring-Billed Gull53 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · sealifebase

Photograph of Larus delawarensis
Photo · Eric Schmidt · CC BY 4.0 · inat

The ring-billed gull is a medium-sized gull native to North America, breeding in Canada and the northern Contiguous United States, and wintering mainly in the United States and northern Mexico. The genus name is from Latin Larus which appears to have referred to a gull or other large seabird.W CalCOFI holds 200 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1987 and 2022.R

200
observations
200
records
200
sampling events
1987–2022
years
1
datasets

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Groups

calcofi:seabirds

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22itis:176830%22