The most widespread pink-legged gull in North America, the herring is common in the east and mainly a winter visitor in the west. Hybrids can be locally common (mainly in the wescat). Polytypic.

Author says gull species are amazingly adaptive, and the Great Lakes area is a perfect spot to find many of them.

Ringbills commonly mix with herring gulls, which lack the black ring on their bill, and also have a much larger wingspan stretching nearly 60 inches.

The herring gull has a white head and underpart ... While the animals are native to Eurasia and Africa, colonizers brought them to North America and other parts of the world.

Herring gulls greet visitors at Brighton train station ... ‘It’s been observed in Britain for longer than elsewhere in Europe and North America,’ he explains, although gulls are prospering ...

Performing medical tests on colonies of herring gulls, black-crowned night herons and Caspian terns to see whether pollution is contributing to their health problems and low population numbers. For ...

Herring gull numbers are in decline, and the species is on a protected list There are “numerous reports” of seagulls being shot along the north Wales coast, police say. “It is illegal to ...

A construction worker tries to shoo the juvenile gull off wet concrete laid as part of the market regeneration project in Great Yarmouth [Andrew Turner/BBC] Herring gulls have caused havoc for ...

Herring gulls are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 An animal rescue charity says three attacks on herring gulls with air rifles in West Sussex are "barbaric" acts. The most ...

NEWCOMER The ring-billed gull, native to North America, was first sighted in Ireland in 1979, near Belmullet.

The second-winter Herring can also suggest a first-winter ... and today the ring-billed may be the most populous gull in North America, with an estimated 3 to 4 million individuals (70 percent ...

Herring gulls have caused havoc for construction workers by walking on wet concrete laid as part of a regeneration project in Norfolk. Foundation slabs are being laid in the market place in Great ...