ID help? Ring-billed and … immature ring-billed gull? (1 Viewer)

[Dr. K]

Hi. I really do not know gulls well. The below picture is from a series that I took today in Michigan, and I don't know what to make of the two gulls with the black bars on their tails. Are they just immatures? Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[SnoHoCo]

The gulls with the tail band are likely juvenile Ring-billed Gulls. The juveniles have a tail band.

 

[Dr. K]

thanks very much. I don't have any gull books and when searching online I found very few pics from under the gulls in flight, and the bird that kept coming up when I searched for the black bar was the black tailed gull, which is extremely unlikely!

 

[KC Foggin]

I think I go along with SnoNoCo