Mediterranean gulls have increasingly begun venturing further north, with single gulls infiltrating Scottish gull colonies and pairing with both black-headed and common gulls. Two pairs of ...

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

Gulls are one of the main wild birds that act as reservoirs of Campylobacter and Salmonella, ... (Larus audouinii), an endemic species of the Mediterranean.

Gulls are one of the main wild birds that act as reservoirs of Campylobacter and Salmonella, two most relevant intestinal antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing gastroenteritis in humans. Therefore ...

Mediterranean gulls often nest around colonies (big groups of birds) of black-headed gulls, which look very similar. Whisby Nature Park has one of the largest black-headed gull colonies in ...

There are more than 100 species of gulls worldwide, and they are doing well, by and large. Some live nowhere near the sea, which makes birders and ornithologists allergic to the common term sea ...

The vagrant kelp gull mated with a local herring gull, though the chick did not survive. Experts say it's a "complete mystery ...

Until the last decade or two, it was a rare birder who made a priority of watching gulls. That’s partly because birders normally identify birds by their plumage, and gulls go through constant ...

Gulls are long-lived — life spans of 20 years are not unheard of, and one of the oldest on record was a 49-year-old herring gull. The birds have time to learn how to live among humans, and they ...

Although southern right whales and kelp gulls have long lived alongside one another, their relationship took a bizarre turn in the 1970s. Until then, the birds seemed content to feed on the sheets ...