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 ...

Gulls are a little scary. They frighten me. I don’t mean literally, in a Hitchcockian sense. The nightmare comes in trying to sort out their identities. Skilled birders usually thrive on ID challenges ...

Nature is full of surprises, something pretty much any biologist worth their salt will tell you. Watch the natural world for long enough, and you’ll spot some truly confounding behavior, especially ...

Scott Shaffer was reviewing the data from a GPS tracking device he had attached to a western gull when he noticed something unusual: The bird had been traveling 60 miles per hour, suspiciously faster ...

USGS-WERC tracks bird and bat movement using 22 Motus stations on CA coast. Tagged gulls and seabirds provide location data to inform wildlife management. GPS data showed a gull traveled 80 miles to ...