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 ...

Go to any Texas beach and you’re bound to see three things: sand, water, and gulls. Unfortunately, gulls are some of the most difficult birds to identify, and are often overlooked for this reason. In ...

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 ...

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, ...

Gulls dominate the bird scene on Galveston Island, whether on bays, beaches, fishing jetties, harbor piers or the Strand shopping district. Since we can't ignore gulls, let's learn more about them.

A glaucous-winged gull was spotted in Lake County this week. The glaucous-winged is a rare gull here that normally lives in the western United States, Alaska and northern Canada. In winter, it flies ...

I went to East Beach in Galveston recently to study gulls with my friend, Mike Austin, a master birder and Friendswood physician. It was a cold, windy day, but that didn't stop us or the gulls.

** The video in the player above shows a segment from an April episode of “Living Dayton” relating to birds. ** DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — What kind of birds do you think are common in large parking areas ...

A kelp gull, typically found in the Southern Hemisphere, has been spotted in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, marking the first recorded sighting of the species in the state. The kelp gull apparently mated with ...

The truth about gulls is, they’ve been here longer than we have. Fossils of ring-billed gulls have been identified from the Pleistocene Era dating to at least 12,000 and as many as 32,000 years ago.