A great annual conflict is underway. Each summer, as hordes of holidaymakers descend on beaches and seaside towns across the country, humans and seagulls come face to face in a chip-based standoff.

While myths about wildlife abound, most are patently false. Bats are not blind; big bears can’t climb trees and birds will not abandon a fledgling touched by a human, among other falsehoods.

It was a busy year for the von Arx Wildlife Hospital in Naples. See a full list of all of the animals that were patients there in 2024.

The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.” — Terri Guillemets This past week has ...

Herring Gull – 2, Hispid Cotton Rat – 6 ... Sora – 2, Southern Flying Squirrel – 2, Southern Toad – 2, Striped Mud Turtle – 16, Swainson’s Thrush – 10.

“And then, strangely, you know, your ordinary herring gull or ring-billed gull will be looked right past by these birders.” A slaty-backed gull flying near Kenosha. Ayyash hopes to spark ...

Diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, writer Joseph Monninger meditates on life, death, and beauty from his small seaside ...

lesser black-backed gull, herring gull, common gull and black-headed gull. During the colder months, small numbers of Mediterranean gulls, scarcely seen in Hertfordshire, also fly in, the trust said.

Gulls are a little scary. They frighten me. I don’t mean literally, in a Hitchcockian sense. The nightmare comes in trying to ...