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 ...

BRISTOL BAY — Sea gulls are everywhere this time of year. Actually, one should term the avian family Laridae, or "gulls." The Alaska contingent of this family covers 20-odd species, with only about a ...

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 seagull carries a morsel of fish and is chased by other gulls in the lower Puyallup River in 2013. The meat originally came from a sea lion’s meal. Peter Haley Staff file, 2013 “Gull” or “sea gull”?

Obviously, the gulls hanging out at Blue Marsh Lake and Lake Ontelaunee who have lunch at local landfills, can’t be sea gulls, because they aren’t out at sea. Some of them may have never been to sea, ...