[Closed] Just saw a seagull kill and eat a pigeon

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Seagulls will eat just about anything. There was a story in the papers recently of one taking a Chihuahua puppy.

During the migration of birds from Africa to Spain, seagulls will sometimes drown vultures. They line up in squadron formation and dive bomb a wing from above. Auto-shitting as they go. The idea is to tip the vulture over so it falls into the sea. Once in the sea it cannot take off again and so drowns.

Vermin eating vermin. Oh well.

Doh ! Seagulls kill fish. Pretty aggressive birds. FWIW we saw a duck kill another duck, not to eat it was about asserting dominance.

I had an ill seagull in my garden. His mate sat on the roof looking after him which I thought was nice.
Coming home 2 hours later the guardian seagull is trying to rip the throat out of the poorly one. (No he wasn't trying to have sex)
So bashed him with a broom and took poorly seagull to bird sanctuary.
This was shortly after I moved to the coast and with hindsight should have beaten them both to death with a spade.

^ 😀

My folks and I once took an injured seagull to the RSPB.

They were really unimpressed.

rather coincidently, brick lane coffee just posted a pic of the same phenomenon. DO NOT CLICK ON THAT URL IF YOU ARE AT WORK. brick lane coffee twitter account is NSFW this morning! 🙂

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EDIT: wwaswas probably right. URL removed 🙂

[i] brick lane coffee twitter account is NSFW[/i]

Not Safe For Anywhere.

Wow, so killer seagulls in London today.

OMFG - was that a photoshopped pic on said twitter feed!?

Yikes.

The Krays have been reincarnated as sea gulls

The Richard and Judy one? I'm guessing it is! 🙂

[url= http://istwitterwrong.tumblr.com/post/29994074799/is-that-really-a-pornographic-picture-of-richard ]Yes, it's a fake. [/url]it looks pretty convincing though!! It's crazy what can be done with photoshop now

Clearly not too many people watch nature programmes, then. Couldn't count how many times over the years I've seen footage of seagulls taking and killing other birds, often pretty big ones. Skuas are vicious killers, and will attack just about anything, they'll happily go after humans, although that's just to drive them away. I was watching something on Springwatch recently about the skuas up on Orkney, IIRC, and I'm pretty sure they were going after eagles.
Found a photo of a gull having a go at a sea eagle, but that's more about protecting food access, they're still bloody aggressive, though.

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Birdemic:

A trailer for possibly the worst looking film ever made

It's not just seagulls, there's footage of a pelican scooping up a pigeon and swallowing it, I think in Hyde Park in London.
St James's Park, actually. Sorry if you're eating your tea...

The Pelican fairly made a meal of that.....

Mine

They're bloody aggressive most of the time, especially around nesting season. They regularly dive bomb people, although admittedly not to eat them. I hope.

There's balance in all things though - per CountZero, today I saw a pair of Skuas taking out a gull. attacked it, took it down to water level and ripped it to pieces. Do you need some Skuas in that there London?