While I appreciate the fact that others have different opinions, this record will be reviewed in the appropriate venue, which is the Maryland DC Records Committee. Identifications of this magnitude should not be decided on the internet or at a bird club meeting. There are several characters on this gull that do not fit Ring-billed Gull. A perusal of the identification literature, including Grant's Gulls and the Lauro and Spencer, American Birds 34:111-117, should be made by interested readers of Maryland Osprey. I would encourage all of Maryland's birders to closely read these references and form their own opinion. As a committee member I cannot offer my opinion. Mary Gustafson