GULLS have never been glamorous, or at least not until relatively recently. Birdwatchers did not bother much with them, and serious ornithologists preferred to study waders or wildfowl. Then along came the modern birder, relishing the challenge of sorting out and identifying one of the most confusing of bird groups. Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America tells the story so far.
Where there was once just the herring gull, we now know that there is a whole group of closely related and very similar species in the same complex. Armed with this book, you should be able to separate…
