Over Easter break I took a short trip down to Galveston. While I was on and around the beach I noticed lots of different wildlife than what I normally see in Austin. One species I saw a lot of were these seagulls. They are like the Grackles of the coast. They were all over the beach and seawall restaurants trying to get a bite of people’s food. I snapped a picture of one on our first day. When I tried to upload the photo to iNaturalist, there wasn’t an id available for seagull. So, I uploaded without an id and asked the iNaturalist community what they thought. I quickly got two ids for Laughing Gull. I looked up the Laughing Gull to see if I agreed with the identity. I found out that Laughing Gulls are year-long residents of the Gulf of Mexico and that they are often found in large numbers in beaches, docks, and parking lots.
Observation: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/5922326
Source: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Laughing_Gull/id