All posts tagged gulls

I like a challenge, ergo I like gulls! However liking gulls and knowing how to identify them are two very different things. I have muddled through gull identification

The one about gulls, more gulls, and even more gulls with British Birds Records Committee member and identification expert Martin 'Birding Frontiers' Garner. We talk Iceland Gulls, Caspian

The one where we're joined by a guest Dominic Mitchell, founder and editor of Birdwatch magazine, and founder and identifier of Britain's first Slaty-backed Gull, and we talk

A bird often mentioned as a potential vagrant to North America is the Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus, a European species which has undertaken a westerly expansion from its

A bird often mentioned as a potential vagrant to North America is the Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus, a European species which has undertaken a westerly expansion from its

I spent an excellent day yesterday at Portland Bird Observatory and Radipole Lake RSPB Reserve with old friend from way back Richard Crossley, ex-pat Brit,

One of the more widespread southern hemisphere gulls, the nominate race of the Kelp Gull Larus dominicanus dominicanus occurs along the coasts of South America, New Zealand, Australia

As often seems to be the case a debate is currently raging on various birding fora concerning the subspecific identification of out-of-range Common Gulls Larus canus ssp. Much