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 ...

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 ...

York County Audubon will present a Gull Identification Workshop led by Derek Lovitch, one of Maine’s premiere birders, Feb. 3 and 4. This two-part workshop on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 3 and Sunday ...

A glaucous-winged gull was spotted in Lake County this week. The glaucous-winged is a rare gull here that normally lives in the western United States, Alaska and northern Canada. In winter, it flies ...

The common gull is about 40-42 centimetres long with a wingspan of 110-120 centimetres. Usually seen here in spring, autumn and winter, common gulls are actually a scarce breeding species here and ...

WELLS – The York County Audubon will present its popular Gull ID workshop, led by birder Derek Lovitch, on Jan. 26 and 27. It’s a two-part workshop, indoors in Wells on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 26, ...