On the Isle of Man and in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland you can take out ‘seagull insurance’ when you’re eating at a food outlet. Sounds strange? This is because seagulls have become enormous pests to paying customers at The Cheesy Toast Shack, a takeaway in …
You might think that seagulls prefer chips to fish in the sea. You might think this because we often see pictures of seagulls taking chips and other human fast-food out of the hands of tourists at the seaside. Hounding those tourists into handing over the …
The posties – postmen and women – of the UK Cornish town, Liskeard, are so frightened of the seagulls dive bombing them to protect their offspring that they have stopped delivering mail to the residents. They’ll will try again the next day if an attack …
A lot of people are irritated by the behaviour of seagulls at the seaside. They are bold and they steal chips out of the hands of holidaymakers enjoying fish and chips out of newspaper. I’ve seen people hit seagulls with their fists in order to …
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 …
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) …
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. …
There is a philosophical discussion taking place on the Internet over a man who punched a seagull to death because it stole one of his chips. The attack happened outside a Wetherspoons pub in Gloucester, UK, last Friday. And, by the way, if you do …
Seagulls are pretty bold at the seaside. I guess they are habituated to humans. There have been some examples of animal cruelty directed at seagulls which is unsurprising since the human and seagull are competitors in the sense of survival. I remember a tourist who …
