1. Non-directional asymmetries (fluctuating asymmetry, FA) from bilateral symmetry in morphological traits have been used as an indicator of environmental stress and may become an important diagnostic ...

Although animals throughout the Arctic are exposed to an alphabet soup of pollutants and contaminants that are carried north from industrialized countries, only polar bears in East Greenland and ...

December seems to be gull season on the Northern Plains -- not for common gulls that nest here nor for those that pause on migration. No! December gulls are rare birds. A couple of years ago in ...

The big-news road bird this winter is the glaucous gull, of course. Last week brought further reports of the bird along Interstate 29, so it has survived at least through Thursday. That's 18 days ...

Protection Island, Washington, is one of the most important nesting sites for Glaucous-winged Gulls (Larus glaucescens) in the Puget Sound area. Changes in the numbers and distribution of nests in a ...

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 ...

But just as our cold toes and fingers were sending messages that it was time to leave, the gulls took flight in a billowing cloud of panic. An adult eagle was passing overhead -- the fifth of the ...

They are a non-breeding species found here in the Autumn, Winter and Spring — on estuaries and at the coast. A glaucous gull is about the size of a black-backed gull. They are of a heavy build and ...

Gulls in northern Alaska are making a killing on the garbage they scavenge from landfills, new research shows. Glaucous gulls that consume a lot of trash raise more chicks than gulls that eat only ...

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 ...

A mysterious ailment that has killed or paralyzed sea gulls around the Port of Tacoma this week is baffling wildlife biologists. About 50 sea gulls have been found dead or paralyzed from the neck down ...