After an ailing California gull was rescued and taken to the Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley on Aug. 10, officials there discovered the bird is perhaps the oldest gull ever known. A band on the bird ...

Seagulls are everywhere we go in the Bay Area; swooping into Giants games, crowding runways at San Jose airport and eyeing tourists’ ice cream cones at the Ferry Building. To many, they’re a nuisance ...

FREMONT — As biologist Josh Scullen drove toward a maze of salt ponds here in late October to conduct his monthly monitoring of California gulls, he pointed to a green field dotted with more than ...

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Unusual in Erie County for June were several rare vagrants, including an American avocet at Gull Point on Presque Isle State Park from June 19 through Wednesday. The first summer record in the county ...

The gull just might be the Rodney Dangerfield of birds. The physiques of many species lean more toward barrel-chested than sleek. Plumage tends toward bland: Picture white and black and 50 shades of ...