Gulls like this first year Ring-Billed, sometimes perch atop foraging pelicans, hoping to snag an escaped fish from the larger bird’s crop. I rode my bike to the southern end of Boca Chica Beach and enjoyed meeting the foraging birds at the mouth of the Rio Grande. This is the east-most border of Texas and Mexico.
Gulls like this first year Ring-Billed, sometimes perch atop foraging pelicans, hoping to snag an escaped fish from the larger bird’s crop. I rode my bike to the southern end of Boca Chica Beach and enjoyed meeting the foraging birds at the mouth of the Rio Grande. This is the east-most border of Texas and Mexico.
Gulls like this first year Ring-Billed, sometimes perch atop foraging pelicans, hoping to snag an escaped fish from the larger bird’s crop. I rode my bike to the southern end of Boca Chica Beach and enjoyed meeting the foraging birds at the mouth of the Rio Grande. This is the east-most border of Texas and Mexico.
Gulls like this first year Ring-Billed, sometimes perch atop foraging pelicans, hoping to snag an escaped fish from the larger bird’s crop. I rode my bike to the southern end of Boca Chica Beach and enjoyed meeting the foraging birds at the mouth of the Rio Grande. This is the east-most border of Texas and Mexico.
Gulls like this first year Ring-Billed, sometimes perch atop foraging pelicans, hoping to snag an escaped fish from the larger bird’s crop. I rode my bike to the southern end of Boca Chica Beach and enjoyed meeting the foraging birds at the mouth of the Rio Grande. This is the east-most border of Texas and Mexico.
Gulls like this first year Ring-Billed, sometimes perch atop foraging pelicans, hoping to snag an escaped fish from the larger bird’s crop. I rode my bike to the southern end of Boca Chica Beach and enjoyed meeting the foraging birds at the mouth of the Rio Grande. This is the east-most border of Texas and Mexico.
Gulls like this first year Ring-Billed, sometimes perch atop foraging pelicans, hoping to snag an escaped fish from the larger bird’s crop. I rode my bike to the southern end of Boca Chica Beach and enjoyed meeting the foraging birds at the mouth of the Rio Grande. This is the east-most border of Texas and Mexico.
Gulls like this first year Ring-Billed, sometimes perch atop foraging pelicans, hoping to snag an escaped fish from the larger bird’s crop. I rode my bike to the southern end of Boca Chica Beach and enjoyed meeting the foraging birds at the mouth of the Rio Grande. This is the east-most border of Texas and Mexico.

Ring-Billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)

Ring-Billed Gull

(Larus delawarensis)

Description:

Gulls like this first year Ring-Billed, sometimes perch atop foraging pelicans, hoping to snag an escaped fish from the larger bird’s crop. I rode my bike to the southern end of Boca Chica Beach and enjoyed meeting the foraging birds at the mouth of the Rio Grande. This is the east-most border of Texas and Mexico.

Date Taken: 2021:01:30 8:34

Location:

Boca Chica Beach
Brownsville, Texas
United States
19.69 ft above sea level

Camera Information:

NIKON D5, 800 mm, f/11.0, 1/2000

File Name: RingBilledGull_D5X6328-BocaChicaBeach

© 2021 Jack Daynes, shadeTreeImaging.com

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