After an ailing California gull was rescued and taken to the Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley on Aug. 10, officials there discovered the bird is perhaps the oldest gull ever known. A band on the bird ...

Seagulls are everywhere we go in the Bay Area; swooping into Giants games, crowding runways at San Jose airport and eyeing tourists’ ice cream cones at the Ferry Building. To many, they’re a nuisance ...

The late Alfred Hitchcock — director of the 1963 horror film “The Birds” — would likely smile slyly if he saw the vast number of California gulls that have seemingly invaded an area near a major ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/1521087 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/1521087 Copy URL The California Gull (Larus californicus) population breeding at Mono Lake ...

HAYWARD — Every summer day, volunteers and park workers stand guard on a small island in San Francisco Bay. At the first sign of a threat, they race into action — blowing whistles, clapping hands and ...

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 ...

Nature is full of surprises, something pretty much any biologist worth their salt will tell you. Watch the natural world for long enough, and you’ll spot some truly confounding behavior, especially ...

CALIPATRIA, CALIF. — A small white gull with an ordinary name had bird watchers flocking to the Salton Sea for what they call a "mega-rarity." The Salton Sea, a 35-mile-long lake stretching across the ...