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 ...

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 monthly article featuring bird species of the Upper Clark Fork River Valley from Butte to Garrison. Author Gary Swant hopes the column will inspire people to take an interest in observing ...

Alert readers of the print edition noticed a puzzling photo caption in my last column. When writing about gull identification it’s a good idea to identify the gulls in the photo properly. And I didn’t ...