Gulls are a little scary. They frighten me. I don’t mean literally, in a Hitchcockian sense. The nightmare comes in trying to sort out their identities. Skilled birders usually thrive on ID challenges ...

For the past couple of weeks, it's been hard to miss the flocks of gulls, coursing as they do over parking lots and farm fields. What are these gulls? It's hard to tell. The gulls are a complicated ...

My fellow passengers on the Bolivar Ferry between Galveston and Bolivar Peninsula were having fun tossing bread to the gulls, or "sea gulls" as the birds are folk-named. As a birder, I'm usually ...

A point of avian trivia: Only one state eclipses Ohio in the number of gull species seen within its boundaries. It is California, which dwarfs Ohio in size and has 840 miles of Pacific coastline.

Did you know there is no such thing as a seagull? Yes, you heard that right—there are many species of gulls, but not one bird called a “seagull.” In Sonoma County, we have around 10 species of gulls, ...

Milwaukee is hosting a unique visitor. Or perhaps new resident. In either case it's a Wisconsin first. And it has the birding world buzzing. A kelp gull, a species typically found along coasts in the ...

This is a monthly article featuring bird species of the Upper Clark Fork River Valley from Butte to Garrison. Author Gary Swant hopes the column will inspire people to take an interest in observing ...

A rare seagull that originates in Siberia and winters in Japan has been spotted in Larimer County, and birders are scrambling to catch a glimpse before it returns to its breeding grounds in the Arctic ...

An aura of mystery surrounds the longevity of wild birds — we can’t just ask a chickadee its age. However, ornithologists have shown that some birds can live surprisingly long lives. The oldest wild ...