In this Bird of the Week segment, Stacia Brezinski with the Maine Audubon tells us all about the herring gull.

The herring gull is perhaps our archetypical ‘seagull’ and adaptable to human influences, is a born survivor. These big, long-lived, highly intelligent birds are equally at home on sea cliffs ...

Many birds lumped under the name “seagull” seem right at home in human-dominated landscapes. In the coastal towns and cities of the United Kingdom, European herring gulls (Larus argentatus ...

One woman has taken it upon herself to rescue and rear mid-Wales’ poorly seagull chicks. Every mid-May, Helen Fitzpatrick takes time off from her job and turns her attention to Herring Gull chicks.