Laughing Gulls are medium-sized gulls with fairly long wings and long legs that impart a graceful look when they are flying or walking. They have stout, fairly long bills.

The laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) is a medium-sized gull of North and South America. Named for its laugh-like call, it is an opportunistic omnivore and scavenger. It breeds in large colonies mostly along the Atlantic coast of North America, …

The strident laughing calls of this well-named gull are among the most characteristic sounds around tidewater along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, especially in summer. It seems to be mostly a warm-weather bird, with the majority departing from …

Laughing Gulls are summer visitors to the Northeast and year-round sights on the coasts of the Southeast and the Gulf of Mexico. Look for Laughing Gulls at the beach, especially during summer when their crisp black hoods and red bills make them easy to …

The most common black-hooded gull on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America; common in the Caribbean and on both coasts of Central America and northern South America. Almost exclusively coastal, especially on beaches and mudflats; rarely ventures far inland.

The laughing gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) is a medium-sized gull of North and South America. Named for its laugh-like call, it is an opportunistic omnivore and scavenger. It breeds in large colonies mostly along the Atlantic coast of North America, …

The Laughing Gull has adapted well to changes to its coastline habitat because, like humans, it's social, adaptable, and inventive. This handsome gull, with its black head, reddish bill, dark-gray wings, and gleaming white underparts, tail, and neck, frequents artificial spoil islands, where it readily nests, and landfills and dumpsters, where ...

Swirling over beaches with strident calls and a distinctive, crisp black head, Laughing Gulls provide sights and sounds evocative of summer on the East Coast. You’ll run across this handsome gull in large numbers at beaches, docks, and parking lots, where they wait for handouts or fill the air with their raucous calls.

Laughing Gull has little white in the wingtips, with at most small white spots at the tips of the primaries, quite unlike the bold white primary tips and white band across the wing of Franklin’s Gull. In nonbreeding plumage, Laughing Gull has a lighter gray and less extensive patch on the back of the head, resembling smudging rather than the ...

Mar 4, 2020 · Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (P. G. Rodewald, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.laugul.01. A global alliance of nature organizations working to document the natural history of all bird species at an unprecedented scale.