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 ...

As Arctic sea ice dwindles, a gull that depends on it seems to be disappearing from the ocean around Greenland. Ivory gulls range throughout the Arctic, spending their lives on or near pack ice in ...