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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The good snow was long gone, leaving only some soggy snowplow berms along the roads, where moose and wolves had left their marks days ago. Our usual occupation on winter walks is finding animal tracks ...

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.