Chicago birders rejoice as Arctic gull makes rare visit to local beaches: 'This is about as good as it gets.'

It was 8:15 on a Saturday morning when Woody Goss' phone started buzzing.Annoyed, he checked the screen to find that one of his birding groups was puzzling over a small white gull with distinctive black markings.The bird looked like a Ross's gull - a very rare visitor from the high Arctic that last stopped for an extended visit at Chicago-area beaches in 1978.

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