The western gull-billed tern is the victim of a bad rap. Though often condemned for preying on other sensitive species — namely, the threatened western snowy plover and the endangered California least ...

Birders explore the area around Morro Rock as part of the the Morro Bay Bird Festival on Jan 16, 2025. This group was lead by ...

Otherwise, they live in marshes and around lakes in the western U.S. Another easy to recognize animal among white head birds is the herring gull. These are the birds that most people think about ...

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

Neither the western gull nor the pigeon guillemot are endangered ... “Practically, it didn’t change the dynamics,” Elliott said. Birds aside, the city also took several months to find ...

The most widespread pink-legged gull in North America ... but bigger-billed.) The Western is stockier and broader-winged, with a more bulbous-tipped black bill; lacks pale inner primary panel.

The western tragopan is a scarce, shy, and elusive bird. Males are as beautiful to behold as they are rare to spot. Locals call the species jujurana, king of birds. More than 3,300 exist in the ...