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.

One Scottish council says it has plan to try and prevent the birds being a health and safety risk.

Herring gulls can be found "around our coasts and inland around rubbish tips, fields, large reservoirs and lakes, especially during winter", the RSPB says A nature reserve in a landlocked county ...