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Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis)
Summary
- Status in VT: Increased by 200% (0 to 2 blocks). Greatest increase in Champlain Valley.
- Data from other research: Young Island: more than 10,000 pairs nested annually for the past 30 years on Young Island. Nests also on Papasquash Island and Rock Island.
- Conservation status: State rank S1B; S5N
- Other atlases: NY and ON: range expansions
- VT’s role in North American range: VT is at the southern edge of the range.
- Causes of change since first Atlas: Recent decrease in abundance due to reduction in available food resources resulting from landfill closures and loss of cropland acreage.
- Management/Monitoring recommendations: population control on Young Island, with the goal of restoring natural vegetation, includes egg-oiling and shooting.
Population Trends
![Ring-billed Gull graph](https://val.vtecostudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Ring-billed-Gull-graph-e1441121471488.jpeg)
First Vermont Breeding Bird Atlas (1976-1981)
Species Account
Second Vermont Breeding Bird Atlas (2003 – 2007)
![Ring-billed Gull Map 1](https://val.vtecostudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Ring-billed-Gull-Map-1.jpeg)
![Ring-billed Gull Table 1](http://val.vtecostudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Ring-billed-Gull-Table-1-e1441121567723.jpeg)
![Ring-billed Gull Table 2](http://val.vtecostudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Ring-billed-Gull-Table-2-e1441121584398.jpeg)
Change in Distribution
![mapkey](https://val.vtecostudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/mapkey5.jpg)
![Ring-billed Gull Map 2](http://val.vtecostudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Ring-billed-Gull-Map-2.jpeg)
![Ring-billed Gull Table 3](http://val.vtecostudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Ring-billed-Gull-Table-3-e1441121633990.jpeg)
Links
Vermont eBird
Encyclopedia of Life
All About Birds