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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I can’t imagine that anyone has ever visited the Northport area at the tip of Michigan’s Leelanau Peninsula and not wondered about the little island with the derelict house that sits in the bay south ...

While thousands of umbrella-clad onlookers waited for what later turned out to be white smoke to billow out of the Sistine Chapel's chimney Wednesday and declare Pope Francis elected, some creatures ...