After an ailing California gull was rescued and taken to the Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley on Aug. 10, officials there discovered the bird is perhaps the oldest gull ever known. A band on the bird ...

FREMONT — As biologist Josh Scullen drove toward a maze of salt ponds here in late October to conduct his monthly monitoring of California gulls, he pointed to a green field dotted with more than ...

Seagulls are everywhere we go in the Bay Area; swooping into Giants games, crowding runways at San Jose airport and eyeing tourists’ ice cream cones at the Ferry Building. To many, they’re a nuisance ...

Wherever you go along the ocean in Orange County and throughout California, you’re sure to see a gull of some sort. And in the winter, Dana Point is the hot spot for migratory gulls. One scientist ...

Scott Shaffer was reviewing the data from a GPS tracking device he had attached to a western gull when he noticed something unusual: The bird had been traveling 60 miles per hour, suspiciously faster ...

The gull just might be the Rodney Dangerfield of birds. The physiques of many species lean more toward barrel-chested than sleek. Plumage tends toward bland: Picture white and black and 50 shades of ...