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 ...

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 ...

Scott Shaffer was reviewing the data from a GPS tracking device he had attached to a western gull when he noticed something unusual: The bird had been traveling 60 miles per hour, suspiciously faster ...

USGS-WERC tracks bird and bat movement using 22 Motus stations on CA coast. Tagged gulls and seabirds provide location data to inform wildlife management. GPS data showed a gull traveled 80 miles to ...