Over the course of a year, a wide variety of birds meander throughout the western Lake Superior region. Some birds arrive in the warm months from the tropical regions of the Americas to raise young in ...

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.

Most of the winter gulls seen here in the inland east are ring-billed gulls and herring gulls. Both are common along the Atlantic coast in the summer, but large populations also nest inland on the ...

Gulls don’t seem to be a big part of our avian landscape this season. In years past we could count on many thousands of gulls descending into Berks during the winter months. Gulls would always be a ...

Large groups of birds usually attract attention and curiosity. If several thousand crows roost in trees above someone’s driveway, I hear about it. Or if during a mid-January thaw 400 robins show up ...

Outside, soft white flakes filled the air, melting silently into the gray water. They glistened on the windshield, swirled and danced in the near distance and formed a shimmering fog of light thick ...

Ever wonder what animals do in the weather we’ve been having? I mean, they don’t have plows, shovels or central heating. Or supermarkets to buy food. How wild creatures make out in these kinds of ...

This time of year, ring-billed gulls are leaving their nesting lakes in the upper Midwest and Canada. The lakes will be icing over, and they know it’s time to head to the balmier promise of a ...

FORT SILL, Okla. Feb. 18, 2016 -- To a serious birder (birder is to birdwatcher as Trekker is to Trekkie -- a more respectable version) there is no such thing as a "seagull." Even serious birders have ...