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 ...

One particularly interesting species in the gull group is the Bonaparte's Gull (banding code BOGU), named for Charles Lucien ...

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 ...

It may be said that Franklin's gulls have no fixed address, but this does not mean the birds are homeless. Franklin's gulls wander about the drier parts of interior North America, seeking suitable ...

Last week I wrote about the gatherings of egrets, shorebirds and swallows on Plum Island. Soheil Zendeh of Lexington told of another gathering of birds that occurs locally which I share with you again ...

A rare Ross's gull, typically found in Siberia, Greenland, Canada and northern Alaska, was found dead in Kansas. The bird, which attracted birdwatchers from across the US, was first sighted in Ford ...