The ring-billed gull is among the most common gull species in North America and is a winter resident in the Ada area, but is uncommon here.

A point of avian trivia: Only one state eclipses Ohio in the number of gull species seen within its boundaries. It is California, which dwarfs Ohio in size and has 840 miles of Pacific coastline.

Obviously, the gulls hanging out at Blue Marsh Lake and Lake Ontelaunee who have lunch at local landfills, can’t be sea gulls, because they aren’t out at sea. Some of them may have never been to sea, ...

The truth about gulls is, they’ve been here longer than we have. Fossils of ring-billed gulls have been identified from the Pleistocene Era dating to at least 12,000 and as many as 32,000 years ago.

No matter where they are, Gulls and Terns can make a lot of noise. In today’s excellent Heather Wolf photo of a Ringed Bill Gull in Brooklyn Bridge Park, this Ringed Bill appears to be screaming about ...

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 ...

SOUTH NEWFANE I love the New England coast, and in recent weeks I have had several occasions to wander sections of this coast, explore some of the inlets, and just watch as the tides breaks on the ...