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.

Author says gull species are amazingly adaptive, and the Great Lakes area is a perfect spot to find many of them.

The Caspian, along with the Yellow-legged gull, is closely related to the Herring gull ... one or two of these 'white-wingers' from the far north, which lack any black patches on their wings ...

The Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust said its Hilfield Park Reservoir Nature Reserve, between Elstree and Bushey, ...

Ringbills commonly mix with herring gulls, which lack the black ring on their bill, and also have a much larger wingspan stretching nearly 60 inches.

How projects, like Woodfibre LNG, may impact herring habitats: What WLNG says it is doing to monitor and protect the species. Herring, slhawt' in the Skwxwú7mesh language, are complicated characters.