Possessing few survival traits, these gentle, harmless Gulls have been driven from a large part of their eastern range to uninhabited and lonely prairie areas of central United States. They are light, graceful flyers and rise from water with ease. In parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota they are increasing in numbers as their habit of nesting on remote islands renders them safe from all predatory animals save man.
From southern British provinces to southern tier of States. South in Winter to Gulf coast. Comparatively rare in the east.