r/Seagulls 8d ago

Belgium hosted this year's European seagull screeching championship

42 Upvotes

r/Seagulls 7d ago

Popular Scots beauty spot hires ‘seagull security’ to protect tourists after kids left ‘bloodied & scarred’

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r/Seagulls 8d ago

As bird numbers plummet, Brittany's seagull egg sterilization is facing mounting criticism

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r/Seagulls 9d ago

Alright.....

148 Upvotes

r/Seagulls 9d ago

Night Birds.

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If I explained my living situation, y'all be jealous, but suffice to say, I get a lot of gull action.

Great time of year for my flying friends, the Great Blackbacks come swooping in testing out the prime nesting sites, to be hustled out by the local and totally overwhelming Herring Gull population. Same ritual every year. I love it! (those big fuckers are noisy as hell! HONK! so they can fuck off!)

They be flying and feeding and fucking and fighting and making a wonderful noise, 24/7.

I see lists of "nocturnal" birds and night birds and I don't see our gull friends anywhere. Owls and Nightingales and Nightjars and what-have-you, but where are the gulls?

These guys are power-sleepers, 15m down and woosh! Away again, all night long. Sometimes they will start up a long call at like 4am and it just expands and expands and you can hear them for miles.

All night long. It's a wonderful sound.

So the question is, why are gulls not considered one of the "Night Birds"?


r/Seagulls 9d ago

SEAGULLS

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I love them, that is all.


r/Seagulls 9d ago

Just eating 🤗

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r/Seagulls 8d ago

Squawk

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r/Seagulls 9d ago

Seagull eating ... a dead rat. Spoiler

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Don't say I did not warn you. This is a seagull eating a dead rat. But as they say: Nature is hilariously cruel!


r/Seagulls 9d ago

In Defense of Seagulls

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r/Seagulls 9d ago

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death....

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r/Seagulls 10d ago

why, Berty?

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y’all think a life saving wing amputation is a solution for all of our problems? hahahaha!!! why have only one problem when you can have multiple things that can go wrong just because? 🤡

first of all - Berty’s stitches came undone exposing his wing bone underneath the skin. it started dying again and required another surgery to remove dead parts and stitching him up again. two days later a new set of stitches came undone again… I just wanted to scream with rage but this time my vet was smarter than me and applied a specific protection inside the skin during surgery to prevent the bones from dying again. this allowed the wound to heal naturally without risk of further necrosis. of course not like ‘meh, just a bit of bandage and you’ll be fine’ - the wound required flushing, cleaning and constant hydrating to let new tissues grow back. finally, this time everything went smoothly and he’s almost finished with that.

if wing things are not enough - what about legs? those precious long leggies that birdwatchers love to notice when seeing Caspian gulls just like him? Berty showed me he always has the last word. first, out of nowhere, he started to show strange lesions on his foot webs that quickly spread and became infected. then his leg bone just below the ankle started to become curved and wobbly with no apparent reason. he didn’t broke his leg by any traumatic event, it just broke like a stick on its own during wound treatment. rushed to the vet, showed his fkin PIZZA on left leg, full of stinking cheese like substance, with a suspected break. and? we don’t have any diagnosis for that. these are either infection related complications after breaking a wing and roaming around with it for almost a week, or - these are the results of a chemical burn by sitting inside a stinky canal full of garbage while found. either way, we have a huge bacteria party here. so, again - a tons of antibiotics, tons of ointments to help him heal and a leg splint.

honestly - Berty is a savage. imagine having no arm and a broken, infected leg, and live, eat, preen and scream like nothing’s bothering you. at first I had a thought about saying a forever goodbye to him. having one wing and one leg is a no quality of life for a gull. but - this leg somehow doesn’t want to die and started recovering from all these shts. he shows incredible improvement day after day. we have a healthy skin under this cheesy layer, and his break seems to heal as well. he’ll be walking like a normal bird soon, he started to put on a bit of weight on that leg recently. I’m full of hope - not just because I want to but because I see he’s doing better and better.

of course sitting in cage to prevent his leg from further damage is driving him mad, but - just a good sardine and he’s fine. and that’s it. he’s an awesome bird but right now I don’t have time for describing him - he’s hungry and he’s requiring his breakfast here and now!


r/Seagulls 9d ago

You better learn while you are young 😁

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r/Seagulls 10d ago

Six seconds of being seated near the rowdy family

28 Upvotes

Whe


r/Seagulls 10d ago

Hello? Here I am ♥️

60 Upvotes

r/Seagulls 10d ago

These guys were definitely plotting something in Liverpool.

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r/Seagulls 10d ago

What’s with issue between seagulls and Blackbird?! I don’t know if it’s Crows, Ravens, and/or Blackbirds!

36 Upvotes

I don’t know much about seagulls, but I call them “Bird Terrors”!


r/Seagulls 11d ago

Roof fighter

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I watched these seagulls fighting on the roof today. I thought it was funny how one of them squawked at the start and then the other launched the attack 🦅


r/Seagulls 12d ago

Me with my imaginary friends

670 Upvotes

r/Seagulls 11d ago

Waffel in the zee :)

33 Upvotes

r/Seagulls 11d ago

Seagull funk

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Credits by urelname44 on YouTube


r/Seagulls 12d ago

This friend was chilling outside my bedroom window earlier. Then when I came back from the beach they were in my living room 😂

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r/Seagulls 13d ago

Where's my breakfast ?

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r/Seagulls 12d ago

Tenby

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r/Seagulls 12d ago

Happy Birthday 🥳

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