These illustrations of gulls are by American ornithologist and illustrator Louis Agassiz Fuertes and date to 1917.

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The birds of America pictured here are: top section, left to right—an adult ring-billed gull in summer, a young ring-billed gull, a young herring gull, and an adult herring gull in summer. In the bottom section are, from left to right: a young great black-backed gull (in back), an adult great black-backed gull (in front), an end of the second year glauceous gull (back), a young glauceous gull (with fish), and an adult glauceous gull in summer. The illustrations are by American ornithologist and illustrator Louis Agassiz Fuertes (died 1927) and date to 1917.

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