A tiny island near Northport with a gazillion gulls has a surprising science backstory. We head out with a research crew to hear the screeching up close, get pecked and learn how these gulls changed ...

Milwaukee is hosting a unique visitor. Or perhaps new resident. In either case it's a Wisconsin first. And it has the birding world buzzing. A kelp gull, a species typically found along coasts in the ...

It was 8:15 on a Saturday morning when Woody Goss’ phone started buzzing. Annoyed, he checked the screen to find that one of his birding groups was puzzling over a small white gull with distinctive ...

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”?

Last time I started "Gulls 101" with a look at the smallest of our local gulls — the ring-billed gull. In this second installment of the course, I will discuss the herring gull, which is the most ...