California Gull Images, Facts and Information:
Larus californicus
- California Gulls are medium sized gulls that have yellow bills and legs with white heads and underparts with medium gray backs.
- They have red eye rings, dark eyes, orange gapes and their bills have has a black line with a red spot on the lower mandible.
- California Gulls are found in western North America where they breed in the interior west.
- They are opportunistic feeders and they will eat just about any thing they can snatch or catch including fish, small mammals, insects, garbage, fruit, grains and marine invertebrates.
- California Gulls lay between 1 to 4 eggs which take 23 to 27 days to hatch. Both parents incubate.
- A group of gulls can be called a “squabble”, “flotilla”, “screech” and “scavenging” of gulls.
- California Gulls can live up to 30 years.
I hope you enjoy viewing my California Gull photos.
Gulls on the edge of the ice at Bear River MBR
Title: Gulls on the edge of the ice at Bear River MBR
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/7/2020
Winter view of Bear River MBR and the snowy Wasatch Mountains
Title: Winter view of Bear River MBR and the snowy Wasatch Mountains
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/7/2020
California Gull with a bill full of nesting materials
Title: California Gull with a bill full of nesting materials
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/2/2019
California Gull splashing on landing
Title: California Gull splashing on landing
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/11/2019
California Gull flying over an icy pond
Title: California Gull flying over an icy pond
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/8/2019
California Gull landing on thin ice
Title: California Gull landing on thin ice
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/8/2019
California Gull on ice
Title: California Gull on ice
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 1/2/2019
December California Gull touch down
Title: December California Gull touch down
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/4/2018
California Gull flying in front of the Wasatch Mountains
Title: California Gull flying in front of the Wasatch Mountains
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 11/18/2018
Adult California Gull chasing brine flies at the Great Salt Lake
Title: Adult California Gull chasing brine flies at the Great Salt Lake
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 7/13/2018
California Gull adult chasing a cloud a brine flies
Title: California Gull adult chasing a cloud a brine flies
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 7/13/2018
Adult California Gull scooping up brine flies with its bill
Title: Adult California Gull scooping up brine flies with its bill
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 7/13/2018
Immature California Gull eating brine flies one by one
Title: Immature California Gull eating brine flies one by one
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 7/13/2018
Snow storm building over the Great Salt Lake
Title: Snow storm building over the Great Salt Lake with California Gulls in flight
Location: Antelope Island State Park, Davis County, Utah
Date: 3/4/2018
Winter California Gull portrait
Title: Winter California Gull portrait
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 1/23/2018
Winter California Gull profile portrait
Title: Winter California Gull profile portrait
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 1/23/2018
California Gull blur
Title: California Gull blur
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/23/2017
California Gull in flight during a snow storm
Title: California Gull in flight during a snow storm
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/16/2017
Close up California Gull in flight
Title: Close up California Gull in flight
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/11/2017
California Gull flying straight at me
Title: California Gull flying straight at me
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/11/2017