Lingering winter visiting birds?

Common Loons typically don’t establish a breeding territory until they are a few years old. Young birds stay farther south during the breeding season, typically not returning north until their 3rd year.

This is probably just a case of mild vagrancy. Maryland is just east of their breeding range in Appalachia.

Ring-billed Gulls take 3 years to reach adulthood. Immature/juvenile birds regularly winter as far south as Florida in the eastern U.S.

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