Milwaukee is hosting a unique visitor. Or perhaps new resident. In either case it's a Wisconsin first. And it has the birding world buzzing. A kelp gull, a species typically found along coasts in the ...

A close-up of a kelp gull in its native habitat in Chile. This is not the individual bird seen in Wisconsin. Wolfgang Kaehler / LightRocket via Getty Images A kelp gull (Larus dominicanus)—a seabird ...

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 ...

Gulls are everywhere, but most people see them as pests, taking for granted their remarkable variety and beauty. Many people think of gulls ("seagull" is not a technical term) as nothing more than ...