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For the past couple of weeks, it's been hard to miss the flocks of gulls, coursing as they do over parking lots and farm fields. What are these gulls? It's hard to tell. The gulls are a complicated ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kelp gull documented in Wisconsin for first time A kelp gull has been documented in Milwaukee, the first verified sighting of the species in Wisconsin. The species is typically found in the Southern ...

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 ...

Bird watchers are cautiously optimistic about seeing endangered piping plovers again this spring in Presque Isle State Park. The small migratory shore birds are starting to rediscover the Gull Point ...

As dinner parties go, this will not be the most aesthetic that you’ve ever seen, but take a look at this Instagram post anyway. It gives you a glorious, up-close view of a Western gull (probably the ...