Any good birder will tell you that the second best place to look for gulls is in the parking lot (with the third being by the ocean and the landfill claiming first place... more on that later). Your average civilian might guess that seagulls more often occur by the sea. While some "true seagulls" like kittiwakes do spend much of their lives on the sea, many familiar gulls like Ring-billed and Herring spend them in the McDonald's parking lot—as grand a place any bird could wish for.