Our cheeky little seagull is representative of the Western Gull. The Western Gull rarely ventures beyond approximately 100 miles inland, almost never very far from the ocean; it is almost an exclusively marinegull. It nests on offshore islands and rocks along the coast, and on islands insideestuaries. A colony also exists on Ano Nuevo Island, then Anacapa Island and Santa Barbara Island in Channel Islands National Park, and Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. In the colonies, long term pairs aggressively defend territories whose borders may shift slightly from year to year but are maintained for the life of the male.
