Gulls are a little scary. They frighten me. I don’t mean literally, in a Hitchcockian sense. The nightmare comes in trying to sort out their identities. Skilled birders usually thrive on ID challenges ...

York County Audubon is very pleased to present a Gull Identification Workshop led Derek Lovitch, one of Maine’s premiere birders. This two-part workshop, on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 3rd, and Sunday ...

York County Audubon is very pleased to once again present its popular Gull ID workshop, led by the very knowledgeable birder Derek Lovitch. It’s a two-part workshop, indoors in Wells on Saturday ...

My fellow passengers on the Bolivar Ferry between Galveston and Bolivar Peninsula were having fun tossing bread to the gulls, or "sea gulls" as the birds are folk-named. As a birder, I'm usually ...

Identifying all of the world's gull species, travel aside, sounds like an impossible task. OK, not impossible. But nothing to bet your life on. Too many species are, at first glance, look-alikes.

FAIRBANKS — During a bird walk I was leading, an out-of-state visitor asked, “Why are there sea gulls here when we’re not by the sea?” The answer is the words “sea gull” are misleading. Gulls are ...

That’s the impression our glaucous-winged gulls made on friends visiting from Australia. I think Don was only half-joking. Australia’s common gull is the silver gull and about the size of our mew. Our ...