The most widespread pink-legged gull in North America, the herring is common in the east and mainly a winter visitor in the west. Hybrids can be locally common (mainly in the wescat). Polytypic.

Gulls are a little scary. They frighten me. I don’t mean literally, in a Hitchcockian sense. The nightmare comes in trying to ...

A wildlife trust says gull numbers have been in freefall since the 1970s due to habitat loss.

lesser black-backed gull, herring gull, common gull and black-headed gull. During the colder months, small numbers of Mediterranean gulls, scarcely seen in Hertfordshire, also fly in, the trust said.