GPS tracking data showed the bird zooming across bridges and interstates at 60 miles per hour on two occasions in 2018 ...

The findings, published recently in the scientific journal BioOne, mark the first time a western gull has ever been observed ...

When biologists compared the genetic “barcodes”—snippets of mitochondrial DNA, inherited matrilineally and thus not affected by hybridization—of 643 North American birds, they found that eight large ...

The western gull-billed tern is less abundant, and has fewer breeding sites, than the two listed endangered seabird species, and does not pose a significant rangewide threat to either of them. “It is ...

The gull just might be the Rodney Dangerfield of birds. The physiques of many species lean more toward barrel-chested than sleek. Plumage tends toward bland: Picture white and black and 50 shades ...

That’s the impression our glaucous-winged gulls made on friends visiting from Australia. I think Don was only half-joking. Australia’s common gull is the silver gull and about the size of our mew. Our ...

One Western gull was freed over the weekend from the shaft of a Budweiser can that someone apparently shoved around its neck, but a handful more are still flying around the Bay Area wearing ...

The San Diego Humane Society released a Western gull back into the wild Monday, 33 days after it arrived with a broken bone and wound from a BB pellet.

The kelp gull was bird species 819 on Wolff's life list. Ayyash said many gull species are very adaptable and can live in close proximity to humans and human development.

The western gull-billed tern is a stout, white, medium-sized, black-capped seabird with a black bill and black legs and feet. Worldwide there are six subspecies of gull-billed terns, two of which are ...