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 ...

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 ...

Over the course of a year, a wide variety of birds meander throughout the western Lake Superior region. Some birds arrive in the warm months from the tropical regions of the Americas to raise young in ...

Fast forward to February 2024: the now mature gull was recaptured in White Rock by researchers from Environment and Climate ...

At the treatment plant, a white second year glaucous gull rested peacefully among hundreds of herring and ring-billed gulls. In one of the lagoons, the other rare but regular "pale" gull was busy ...

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, ...

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Ashley A. Polski, Karen J. Osborn, James L. Hayward, Elliot Joo, Athena T. Mitchell, Amanda G. Sandler and Shandelle M. Henson Cannibalism, the killing and eating of conspecifics of any life stage, ...

A point of avian trivia: Only one state eclipses Ohio in the number of gull species seen within its boundaries. It is California, which dwarfs Ohio in size and has 840 miles of Pacific coastline.

Robins, tree and barn swallows, and other birds chirping in the morning is usually a welcoming first sign of spring in the St. Louis region. But bird watchers are hearing birdsongs earlier than usual.