The larger California (commonly occurs alongside the ring-billed in the west) is a 4-cycle gull with a stouter bill and dark eyes in all ages. The adult California has slightly darker medium gray ...

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.

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 wonder for all gull species.

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

Part of a complex of similar gulls, this bird closely resembles the Herring Gull or Ring-billed Gull, and is intermediate between those two in size. It nests around lakes in the interior of the west, ...

Often the most common and widespread gull in North America, especially inland, and numbers are probably still increasing. Sociable at all seasons; concentrations at nesting colonies or at winter ...

Many years, ring-billed gulls are the most common wintering gull in Kansas, having moved southward from nesting areas in central Canada and some places in the American West. Like many birds ...