A point of avian trivia: Only one state eclipses Ohio in the number of gull species seen within its boundaries. It is California, which dwarfs Ohio in size and has 840 miles of Pacific coastline.

SOUTH NEWFANE I love the New England coast, and in recent weeks I have had several occasions to wander sections of this coast, explore some of the inlets, and just watch as the tides breaks on the ...

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 ...

A glaucous-winged gull was spotted in Lake County this week. The glaucous-winged is a rare gull here that normally lives in the western United States, Alaska and northern Canada. In winter, it flies ...

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 ...

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 ...

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When Union Hall resident Melvin Oakes emailed pictures to Laker Weekly recently, he captioned them "Seagulls vacationing at Contentment Island and Land's End on Dec. 31, 2012." In the photos, there ...