The ivory gull was big news in Illinois, where it was documented in stories in the Chicago Tribune and the hometown Quincy Herald-Whig, which quoted the Kassoufs. "We've been birding for 50 years ...

For avid birders, seeing an ivory gull is equivalent to shaking hands with royalty, which might explain why the bird has been eating like a king since its first reported sighting on Dec. 30.

If anyone deserves to find an ivory gull at the Lake County Fairgrounds in Grayslake, it’s Amar Ayyash. Known throughout the nation as a gull expert and the administrator of the North American ...

An ivory gull was first seen on Dec. 30 by Scott Wolff on Park Point and identified positively by Jan and Larry Kraemer on Jan. 1 at the mouth of Miller Creek. ADVERTISEMENT.

LOWER TOWNSHIP — Business is slow at Wayne Forsythe’s plumbing business in Hendersonville, N.C., which gives him more time lately for his hobby — birding. While scouring the Internet for ...

Ivory Gull. The ivory gull is another species of seagull that made it onto this list. Because there are so many, they can be quite difficult to identify. Not the ivory gull.

Update: Rare ivory gull found dead – but a second one spotted; DULUTH, Minn. — Duluth’s Scott Wolff wasn’t sure exactly what kind of gull he was looking at during his walk on Park Point on ...

A birder once reported that an ivory gull, one of the rarest gulls in the world, had stopped by the Lake County Fairgrounds. I was there in fewer than 10 minutes and the bird was gone, never to be ...

The ivory gull’s bill is tipped with pale yellow and the bird has coal-black eyes and feet. It grows to 17 inches and weighs 1.4 pounds, with a 37-inch wingspan, according to the National ...

The last report of a fully mature ivory gull in Massachusetts occurred in the 1800s. In 1976 an immature bird was spotted in Rockport. Three other immature birds were seen in the 1940s.