Gulls are a little scary. They frighten me. I don’t mean literally, in a Hitchcockian sense. The nightmare comes in trying to ...

The most widespread pink-legged gull in North America, the herring is common in the east and mainly a winter visitor in the west. Hybrids can be locally common (mainly in the wescat). Polytypic.

Author says gull species are amazingly adaptive, and the Great Lakes area is a perfect spot to find many of them.

Herring gull numbers are in decline, and the species is on a protected list There are “numerous reports” of seagulls being shot along the north Wales coast, police say. “It is illegal to ...