Ring-billed Gull
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Ring-billed Gull
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Map and range not to any scale and may not absolute.
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I wanted to show the black ring on the bill, the yellow eye and the red around the eye.
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Also in the following photos I want to show a few positions as they fly.
While at Havasu Lake photographing the Yellow-billed Loon a couple of Ring-billed Gulls few over.

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I think the hardest thing to for them to do is take off from the water's surface.
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It almost looks like it is using its wings like a parachute.  | 
 
Same here. Maybe it's like a reversing action.  | 
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My fish was this big but it got away.
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This is an immature Ring-billed Gull.

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Com-on now, it's not that hard, just start flapping those wings.
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