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 ...

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 ...

This Februrary, start a new tradition with some of North America’s most confounding birds. What could be more romantic?

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 ...

You’ll never hear a seasoned birder using the term “seagull.” I have used the treasonous term more than once around a group ...

Milwaukee is hosting a unique visitor. Or perhaps new resident. In either case it's a Wisconsin first. And it has the birding world buzzing. A kelp gull, a species typically found along coasts in the ...

A point of avian trivia: Only one state eclipses Ohio in the number of gull species seen within its boundaries. It is California, which dwarfs Ohio in size and has 840 miles of Pacific coastline.

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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 ...