The ring-billed gull is among the most common gull species in North America and is a winter resident in the Ada area, but is uncommon here.

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 ...

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 ...

BRISTOL BAY — Sea gulls are everywhere this time of year. Actually, one should term the avian family Laridae, or "gulls." The Alaska contingent of this family covers 20-odd species, with only about a ...

The gull just might be the Rodney Dangerfield of birds. The physiques of many species lean more toward barrel-chested than sleek. Plumage tends toward bland: Picture white and black and 50 shades of ...

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.

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 ...

A seagull carries a morsel of fish and is chased by other gulls in the lower Puyallup River in 2013. The meat originally came from a sea lion’s meal. Peter Haley Staff file, 2013 “Gull” or “sea gull”?

Obviously, the gulls hanging out at Blue Marsh Lake and Lake Ontelaunee who have lunch at local landfills, can’t be sea gulls, because they aren’t out at sea. Some of them may have never been to sea, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Roughly a dozen species of gulls are regular visitors to Lake Erie and the rivers that empty into it. These scavengers of the oceans, lakes and rivers roam the Ohio lakefront during ...