One fall some years ago I stood on the Grand Marais harbor shore behind the Angry Trout Cafe and listened to two friends debate the identity of a gull. Was it an Iceland gull or a Thayer's gull, clues ...

Capt. John Makowsky, of the lobster boat Intrepid from Hampton, made national news last year with the story of how he saved his friend Red Eye. Red Eye is the name he gave to a great black-backed gull ...

Familiarity does not breed contempt, but the reverse. 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 ...

WESTBROOK — This seagull is an early riser and a picky eater — preferring delicacies from a gourmet fish monger — who isn’t too proud to accept a hand-out. “Smeagull the seagull (specifically a ...

Gulls are everywhere, but most people see them as pests, taking for granted their remarkable variety and beauty. Many people think of gulls ("seagull" is not a technical term) as nothing more than ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper is concerned with the problem of how the parent Herring Gull (Larus argentatus), in the natural situation, contributes to providing ...

Measurements of the rates of population increase, reproduction, and mortality together with an observed age ratio, were used to analyze the population of the Herring Gull in New England. Data from ...

Until the last decade or two, it was a rare birder who made a priority of watching gulls. That’s partly because birders normally identify birds by their plumage, and gulls go through constant changes ...