Ring-billed Gull
| Larus delawarensis | Order: Charadriiformes | Family: Laridae (Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers) |
Larus delawarensis
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Laridae (Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers)
The gull that mooches for fries at fast food joints and follows plows and tractors to feed on grubs stirred up is abundant, thriving in urban areas as well as coastal areas.
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Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- New Wheels for Birding! 2023
- Parasitic Jaeger in July!! 2023
- Feed the birds, but do it right! 2021
- The World I Choose to Live In 2017
- The Floodgates Open! 2017
- A Walk at Park Point 2017
- Pink-capped Marchers 2017
- Birding at Brooklyn Bridge Park with Heather Wolf 2016
- Hog Island Audubon Camp 2016
- Canal Park Gulls 2013
- Fun with Gulls 2013
- Birding with the Flu 2012
- Stories from the Archives: For the Birds Retrospective 2010
- Jaegers 2010
- Wood Ticks 2010
- Seagulls 2009
- A Letter from Roger Tory Peterson 2008
- Birding at Minnesota River Valley National Wildlife Refuge 2006
- Snowy Plovers nesting at Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge 2006
- Street Patrol 2006
- For the Birds at 20 Years! 2006
- Spring Advancing 2006 2006
- Birding with Photon 2005
- Migration Update 2005
- Haying 2005
- Spring Warbler Walks 2005
- November Evening Grosbeaks 2004
- News from the Milwaukee Humane Society 2004
- Conservation: Chimneys and Plastic Rings 2004
- Christmas Bird Count 2003 summary 2003
- Magical Connections 2003
- Changing Bird Numbers 2003
- Yard List, Part III 2003
- Birds of Walt Disney World 2003
- Niagara Falls 2002
- Awkward Season 2002
- Gluttony 2000
- Poem by John Oberholtzer: Bird Legs 2000
- Fast Food Franchise Birds 1999
- Rex the Baby Kingbird 1999
- Questions about Summer Birds 1999
- Bird Legs, a poem by John Oberholtzer 1999
- The Land of Giant Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes 1999
- FROM 1998, IN ANTICIPATION OF THE UPCOMING MOVIE: Movie Review: Everest and Alpine Choughs 1998
- Bird Feet 1998
- Urban Birds (Adapted from 1988) 1997
- Star Wars 1997
- Spring! 1996
- Sabine's Gull 1995
- Roller Blading Birder 1995
- Gulls (Placeholder) 1994
- World of Wheels 1994
- Gluttony 1992
- Fall Bird Feeding 1992
- Bird Feet 1992
- Gulls (Placeholder) 1992
- Evacuating with Children and Birds 1992
- Gulls 1992
- Bird Populations 1991
- Birding along I-35 1991
- Sounds of Spring Migration 1991
- A letter from Roger Tory Peterson 1990
- Christmas Bird Count Summary, 1989 1989
- Garbagemen in the Bird World 1989
- Flocking 1989
- Crows and Ravens 1989
- Trends in bird populations 1989
- Urban Birds (revised) Date confirmed 1989
- Biking to Port Wing 1989
- Black-capped Chickadee 1989
- Herring Gulls 1989
- Birds of Washington, D.C. 1989
- Feeder contest 1989
- Urban birds (Original) 1988
- This year's drought 1988
- Ring-billed Gull 1988
- Birds in Science Fiction 1988
- French That's for the Birds 1988
- Scavengers: The Garbagemen of the Bird World. 1987
- Book Review: Flattened Fauna---A Field Guide to Common Animals of Roads, Streets, and Highways 1987
- Gulls: Duluth Audubon's forum 1987
- Flocking 1987
- A Letter from Roger Tory Peterson 1987
- Movie Review: Snow White 1987
- Welcome to WOJB and KBEM with Ogden Nash 1987
- Are our gulls out of Hitchcock? 1987
- More Questions about Birds 1987
- Gulls 1987
- Birding from a Car with Kids 1987
- Cracking the Code of All Bird Language 1987
- More arrivals: migration update 1987
- Gift Ideas for Birdwatchers 1986
- Rare Birds Showing Up 1986
- Fall Feeding 1986
- Legal Protection of Birds 1986
- Sea Swallows 1986
- Who Will Love a Little Sparrow? 1986
- Baby Birds, Part I (Original) 1986
- Gulls (Original) 1986
Sound Recordings
- Warbling Vireo: 2 minutes of singing 2024
- American Robin Dawn Song 2024
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker drumming: 5 sets 2024
- Carolina Wren on Park Point: 6 songs 2024
- After the Ice Storm, in the Snow 2023
- Blue Jay making 22 whiny "jay" calls 2022
- Dawn from my office window 2022
- Over an hour of morning song at raspberry bushes 2022
- Mid-morning, 2 hours outside office window 2022
- An Hour of Early Morning Song 2022
- Common Redpolls: 45 minutes 2022
- Common Redpolls and one Pine Siskin 2022
- Wood Thrush! 2021
- Mid-April Dawn Chorus 2021
- Morning Song, June 21 2020
- Dawn Chorus, June 20, 2020 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 31, 2020 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 4 2020
- American Crow: Loud caws in my backyard 2020
- Dawn Chorus, May 2 2020
- Morning Songs, May 1 2020
- Backyard Dawn Chorus, April 30 2020
- Morning Twitterings 2020