Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Case Study: Schoolhouse Pond, Maryland

Gull topography

Glossary

Gull identification basics

Species accounts

Chapter 1. Hooded Gulls

Little Gull

Black-headed Gull

Bonaparte’s Gull

Laughing Gull

Franklin’s Gull

Sabine’s Gull

Chapter 2. Large White-headed Gulls

Herring Gull

Great Black-backed Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Western Gull

Glaucous-winged Gull

Yellow-footed Gull

Glaucous Gull

Iceland Gull

Chapter 3. Medium-sized White-headed Gulls

California Gull

Ring-billed Gull

Mew Gull

Chapter 4. White-hooded Gull

Heermann’s Gull

Chapter 5. Arctic Species, Pelagic Species & Vagrants

Ivory Gull

Ross’s Gull

Red-legged Kittiwake

Black-legged Kittiwake

Grey-hooded Gull

Kelp Gull

Swallow-tailed Gull

Slaty-backed Gull

Black-tailed Gull

Bibliography and Additional Reading

Index 

About the Author

Fred Shaffer is a lifelong birdwatcher with a fascination for gulls. He has written about the gulls of Schoolhouse Pond in Maryland Birdlife and has spent more than 30 years observing gulls on field sites across North America.