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 ...

York County Audubon is very pleased to present a Gull Identification Workshop led Derek Lovitch, one of Maine’s premiere birders. This two-part workshop, on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 3rd, and Sunday ...

York County Audubon is very pleased to once again present its popular Gull ID workshop, led by the very knowledgeable birder Derek Lovitch. It’s a two-part workshop, indoors in Wells on Saturday ...

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 ...

That’s the impression our glaucous-winged gulls made on friends visiting from Australia. I think Don was only half-joking. Australia’s common gull is the silver gull and about the size of our mew. Our ...

FAIRBANKS — During a bird walk I was leading, an out-of-state visitor asked, “Why are there sea gulls here when we’re not by the sea?” The answer is the words “sea gull” are misleading. Gulls are ...

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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 ...

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, ...

Over the course of a year, a wide variety of birds meander throughout the western Lake Superior region. Some birds arrive in the warm months from the tropical regions of the Americas to raise young in ...