One fall some years ago I stood on the Grand Marais harbor shore behind the Angry Trout Cafe and listened to two friends debate the identity of a gull. Was it an Iceland gull or a Thayer's gull, clues ...

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 ...

Did you know there is no such thing as a seagull? Yes, you heard that right—there are many species of gulls, but not one bird called a “seagull.” In Sonoma County, we have around 10 species of gulls, ...