American Herring Gull Images, Facts and Information:
Larus smithsonianus used to be Larus argentatus
- American Herring Gulls are large sized gulls that have hefty yellow bills, pink legs with white heads and underparts with medium gray backs.
- They have yellow to orange eye rings, pale eyes, yellow gapes and their bills have a red spot with a black smudge near the top of the on the lower mandible. It takes several years for American Herring Gulls to obtain their adult plumage.
- American Herring Gulls are found throughout North America during the breeding season, winter and in migration. They breed in the northeastern U.S, Alaska and Canada.
- They are opportunistic feeders and they will eat just about any thing they can snatch or catch including fish, small mammals, insects, garbage, fruit, the young of other birds, eggs and marine invertebrates. They readily snatch food from other birds.
- American Herring Gulls lay between 1 to 3 eggs which take 31 to 32 days to hatch. Both parents incubate.
- A group of gulls can be called a “squabble”, “flotilla”, “screech” and “scavenging” of gulls.
- American Herring Gulls can live up to 35 years.
I hope you enjoy viewing my American Herring Gull photos.
Adult American Herring Gull in winter plumage in Utah
Title: Adult American Herring Gull in winter plumage in Utah
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/10/2022
American Herring Gull walking on ice at Bear River MBR
Title: American Herring Gull walking on ice at Bear River MBR
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/10/2022
First cycle American Herring Gull on ice
Title: First cycle American Herring Gull on ice
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/6/2021
First winter American Herring Gull walking on ice
Title: First winter American Herring Gull walking on ice
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/6/2021
First winter American Herring Gull on ice
Title: First winter American Herring Gull on ice
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/6/2021
Immature American Herring Gull testing the ice
Title: Immature American Herring Gull testing the ice
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/6/2021
Calling third cycle American Herring Gull
Title: Calling third cycle American Herring Gull
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/6/2021
Third cycle American Herring Gull preening
Title: Third cycle American Herring Gull preening
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/6/2021
Third winter American Herring Gull standing on ice
Title: Third winter American Herring Gull standing on ice
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/6/2021
Third winter American Herring Gull calling
Title: Third winter American Herring Gull calling
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/6/2021
Alert adult American Herring Gull in winter
Title: Alert adult American Herring Gull in winter
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/6/2021
Adult American Herring Gull walking on a shelf of ice
Title: Adult American Herring Gull walking on a shelf of ice
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/6/2021
Winter American Herring Gull in flight close up
Title: Winter American Herring Gull in flight close up
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/6/2021
American Herring Gull in thick fog
Title: American Herring Gull in thick fog
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/27/2020
American Herring Gull in nonbreeding plumage flying by
Title: American Herring Gull in nonbreeding plumage flying by
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/7/2020
American Herring Gull lifting off from a shelf of ice
Title: American Herring Gull lifting off from a shelf of ice
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/7/2020
American Herring Gull gulping down a fish
Title: American Herring Gull gulping down a fish
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/7/2020
American Herring Gull fishing for prey in a wintry marsh
Title: American Herring Gull fishing for prey in a wintry marsh
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/7/2020
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