In this Bird of the Week segment, Stacia Brezinski with the Maine Audubon tells us all about the herring gull.

Herring Gull Larus argentatus with three chicks (Getty Images/aseppa)Now in this book, I will be honest, I find that many of these gull species look interchangeable.

The book’s introduction offers a framework for how to think about gulls as a group and explains their unique place in the avian world. ... Herring Gull, left, and Ring-billed Gull, right.

NEW BEDFORD — There’s a herring gull named Glen flying around the Whaling City, and he’s about to make his big debut in an upcoming children’s book.

When he included this image, from his early days shooting in Maine, in his 1997 book Sightings, Ralston titled it Glint, for the look in the herring gull’s eye. “It embodied the larger wariness I was ...

In the 1930s, the U.S. government initiated a massive gull control program in New England where they destroyed over 800,000 herring gull and Great Black-backed gull eggs over the course of around ...

In winter, you’ll find plenty of herring gulls and ring-billed gulls, but others you might see this time of year include the great black-backed gull. This species has a black back that contrasts ...

As herring gulls spend most of their lives around water, they routinely encounter mussels. Mussels, or clams, are hard-shelled bivalves and - when sealed up - are, in essence, living rocks.

The herring gull is perhaps our archetypical ‘seagull’ and adaptable to human influences, is a born survivor. These big, long-lived, highly intelligent birds are equally at home on sea cliffs ...