seagulls

Seagulls defend their young from a couple of innocent women living in a flat nearby

Two female flatmates terrorised by two seagulls pecking at their window. Why?

NEWS AND COMMENT – NECASTLE, UK: A couple of female flatmates, Georgina Gray and Helen McKeever, have been pestered by a couple of seagulls for a long time. They peck at the window daily and it starts at 6:30 AM. Gray said that they don’t know what they want. And that they just sit there …

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Seagull flies first class

Seagull flies as passenger standing up on the back of another seagull

Amazing is what comes to mind. Never seen anything remotely like it. What is going on? Common sense would suggest that the passenger seagull is either (a) lazy (b) ill (c) both of these (d) taking the piss (e) showing off to other seagulls (f) entertaining himself (g) is related to the one who’s doing …

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Greedy seagull grabs some ice cream. The types who do this are smarter than those that eat fish

Grabbing human food makes seagulls more intelligent

Researchers from the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in St John’s examined 133 adult ring-billed gulls living in four locations and tested their blood for omega-3 fatty acids to find out how much human food they had the compared with a natural fish diet. They then put the gulls through an intelligence test called …

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