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 ...

Ragnar Smith describes the discovery and identification of the Western Palearctic's second-ever Short-billed Gull in the ...

For the past couple of weeks, it's been hard to miss the flocks of gulls, coursing as they do over parking lots and farm fields. What are these gulls? It's hard to tell. The gulls are a complicated ...