Here are this week's bird sightings from Voice of Audubon for Western Massachusetts. A black-headed gull was present on Sunday in Hadley. A barrow's goldeneye, three canvasbacks and a red-necked ...

The Black Headed Gull is usually found in Europe and Asia. It was first seen on Dec. 27 in the Santa Cruz area, and today, birders flocked to Rio Del Mar to snap photos of the bird.

Description: A small gull, some 38 to 44 cm long, with a 94 to 105 cm wingspan. The wing has a white leading edge that can be seen in flight (see photo), and the primary wing feathers are tipped ...

“Dramatic is the fate of a Danish black-headed gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) that stepped on a freshwater mussel in 1952,” he writes. “The mussel closed its valves and would not let go.

THE survey of the black-headed gull (Larus ribibundus) carried out by P. D. Hollom, with the help of 160 other observers for the British Trust for Ornithology (British Birds, Jan. 1939), gives a ...