A rare Ross's gull, typically found in Siberia, Greenland, Canada and northern Alaska, was found dead in Kansas. The bird, which attracted birdwatchers from across the US, was first sighted in Ford ...

Bird watchers are flocking to southwest Kansas after the appearance there of a Ross's gull, a rare species generally found only in Siberia, Greenland, Canada and northern Alaska. "This is a really big ...

It was 8:15 on a Saturday morning when Woody Goss’ phone started buzzing. Annoyed, he checked the screen to find that one of his birding groups was puzzling over a small white gull with distinctive ...

A rare Ross's gull, typically found in Arctic regions, was found dead in Kansas. The Ross's gull will become part of the University of Kansas Natural History Museum's collection. The bird, first ...

CALIPATRIA, Calif. – A small white gull with an ordinary name had bird watchers flocking to the Salton Sea for what they call a “mega-rarity.” The Salton Sea, a 35-mile-long lake stretching across the ...

The temperature has moderated this week after a couple of weeks of “winter blast.” Those days of below freezing weather and biting cold winds forces a lot of what I like to call birding-by-car and ...

If you were around in the mid-1970s, you may remember the “bird of the century” that put Newburyport on the map, at least for birding. A rare bird of the Arctic, the Ross’ gull, made national ...

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 ...

November is often a pretty good month for gulls, and so it has been this year. Dave Lambeth spotted an Iceland gull last week. This is a real rarity here. The sighting was the first record for Grand ...