Mainers love their birds and so this summer we're once again helping you build your bird list. In this Bird of the Week segment, Stacia Brezinski with the Maine Audubon tells us all about the herring ...

Last time I started "Gulls 101" with a look at the smallest of our local gulls — the ring-billed gull. In this second installment of the course, I will discuss the herring gull, which is the most ...

SOUTH NEWFANE I love the New England coast, and in recent weeks I have had several occasions to wander sections of this coast, explore some of the inlets, and just watch as the tides breaks on the ...

Years ago, people in New England found gulls only near the coast, and we became accustomed to calling them "seagulls." In fact, almost all of them were "herring" gulls, one species of this large ...

On Friday, at a beach in Bray, Co Wicklow, a single herring gull took off and flew out in the direction of the sea. It might seem like an innocuous enough event but it was the build-up that made this ...