My fellow passengers on the Bolivar Ferry between Galveston and Bolivar Peninsula were having fun tossing bread to the gulls, or "sea gulls" as the birds are folk-named. As a birder, I'm usually ...

Go to any Texas beach and you’re bound to see three things: sand, water, and gulls. Unfortunately, gulls are some of the most difficult birds to identify, and are often overlooked for this reason. In ...

The truth about gulls is, they’ve been here longer than we have. Fossils of ring-billed gulls have been identified from the Pleistocene Era dating to at least 12,000 and as many as 32,000 years ago.