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

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.

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

"We don’t demonise the herring gull, they are part of life on the coast, trying to live and thrive like us all," he stressed. "But let us remember we are responsible not only for the protection ...