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 ...

In 1955, the state of Utah officially recognized the “sea gull” as the state bird in recognition of how flocks of gulls saved pioneer crops from a plague of locusts in 1848. Over time, the California ...

I went to East Beach in Galveston recently to study gulls with my friend, Mike Austin, a master birder and Friendswood physician. It was a cold, windy day, but that didn't stop us or the gulls.

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, ...

One of my favorite classes as an undergrad in the '80s at UNH was Arthur Borror’s “Introduction to Ornithology.” I recall doing fairly well in that class - I could memorize the minutiae of anatomy and ...

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 ...

Ask anyone living in a coastal area of the UK and they'll confirm that seagulls can be a nuisance. These birds' pilfering of food knows no bounds, and no one is safe from one of their thieving attacks ...