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 ...

Lined up with cameras and binoculars poised, hundreds of bird watchers gathered near the breakwall at Duluth's Canal Park for a "once-in-a-lifetime" glimpse of a bird — a rare ivory gull. The species ...

DULUTH, Minn. -- An ivory gull that had been present in the Duluth area since Dec. 30, drawing crowds to see the rare bird, has died, Duluth birder Laura Erickson said Wednesday.On the bright side, ...

A glaucous-winged gull was spotted in Lake County this week. The glaucous-winged is a rare gull here that normally lives in the western United States, Alaska and northern Canada. In winter, it flies ...