The western gull-billed tern is the victim of a bad rap. Though often condemned for preying on other sensitive species — namely, the threatened western snowy plover and the endangered California least ...

Neither the western gull nor the pigeon guillemot are endangered ... “Practically, it didn’t change the dynamics,” Elliott said. Birds aside, the city also took several months to find ...

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