This bird is most definitely a Ring-billed Gull, as JanJ points out, the pointed tips to the greater coverts...shaped like curly brackets: }
...are all you need to clinch the ID.
I think that Southern Illinois has it's own pantheon of renegade birding gods, that somehow I have blasphemed. Maybe it was my impertinence in my quest for a Swainson's Warbler, which no one living north of I-70 is allowed to see. Maybe it was the great string of luck that Skrentny and I had...
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