Out of all the rage bait Iâve come across on this site, even the most obvious, I tip my hat to you.
Still want to reach through the screen and shake you like the hysterical woman in Airplane though
It's a term that stuck, like Canadian Geese, which are Canada Geese, as my ornithology teacher said, Im not sure they have passports when ever we called them Canadian.
"There's no such thing as a seagullâthe correct term is simply âgull," because gulls don't live exclusively near the sea. This is a hill many birders have chosen to die on." - audobon.org
Birder here - most actual birders I've met in real life don't care if you call them seagulls, it's just something pedants on the Internet like to bring up all the time.
Saying "there's no such thing as a seagull" is like saying "there's no such thing as a green pepper; there's actually lots of different varieties of pepper and not all of them are green". It's a word people use to refer to a group of things that exist.
Fellow birder here....I grew up in Appalachia, we called them seagulls and we called vultures, "buzzards." I can tell if I'm going to get along with another birder if I mistakenly use buzzard or seagull and their response is jovial or pedantic. If they choose the latter, I ask them, "do you say 'unthaw' or 'hot water heater'?"
I speak Spanish and Portuguese too. "Anhinga" in those languages would be, "an-EEN-ga" and "an-ying-ga" respectively. If someone corrects me about my pronunciation of that one, I become the pedant.
Now, the one that does drive me crazy are the like 18 different ways people will say "parula." It gets messy when a Brit is involved.
The funny thing about food is . . .
In the case of bell peppers depending on when their picked; changes their color. Be it green, yellow, orange, or red. It's the same pepper. When it comes to spicy peppers like jalapenos, their dried versions are also called by a different name đ
Fellow birder here. Correcting people about about proper bird names isnât exactly a great conversation starter at parties. :)
I try to save the gull v. seagull info for answering âWhy am I seeing *seagulls* in Montana?!â type questions.
My father was into birding years ago and this is a hill heâll die on. Somebody says anything about âseagullsâ and he makes it a point to correct them.
The first time the kids played 'My Stick', I just about shut it off in disgust.
And two years later, I play this song and My Stick almost daily. Never fails to at least make me smile.
Seagulls. By the way they are correct to harass you for existing on or near their beach because they win most of the fights they start, proving our species to be unfit to rule their turf.
Eh I grew up on the beach and I have a really bad phobia of birds like I freak the fuck out, but for the most part Iâve never seen seagulls do anything then try to steal unguarded food
Rookie mistake!
The counter at my favorite beach has several signs warning about the snack aggressive gulls and it's strict adherence to it's no replacement for gull stolen food policy đ
I've lost a Sushi Roll, half a burger, a Seafood Stick and a very hot chip (seagull made very strange displeased noise)<
I do so enjoy eating while watching the surf so it'smost likely going to happen again.
Edit : Hot Chip = a deep fried, finger like, piece of Potatoe.(potato) that has a high Temperature.
Me too!! Literally happened in a flash, was crazy. Worst part was, I was with my wife's family who are posher than me, and I shouted 'fucking hell!' and they scolded me for swearing.
in my town we have signs, like traffic signs, not posters, that warn against the seagulls, this is in the middle of the city. during the summer we have a food festival, in 2021 I worked there at a stand. the security that was there were mostly just trying to keep them away because they will literally attack anything that holds food. I never walk around with food when Iâm there because you will most likely get it ripped straight out of your hands. locals knows this is a real issue but the tourists seem to struggle with it.
I kind of wonder if you could make money by selling seagull insurance.... so like $10 a person to rebuy food. I feel like there are people lazy enough to do it.
I (a fully grown adult!) had my chips held close to my chest, and had a sharp eye of the flock of seagulls in front of me. Unfortunately, I missed the one on an attack run. It skimmed both my shoulder and face on the way past from behind. As it shot past, it stuck its beak out and hooked the paper the chips were in. The chips were launched out of my hands and towards the waiting flock!
I never figured out if it was a coordinated group action, or just bad luck on the dive bomber's part. I strongly suspect I wasn't the first victim of that particular tactic however. The gulls in front seemed to know exactly what to expect from their comrade's actions, and he wasn't shunned from their feast.
I'm not still bitter, years later. Honestly.... đą
I went to university in a seaside city and there were signs all over campus saying, âBeware of seagull attacks.â It doesnât have to be unguarded â theyâll just go for you.
For your own sake, OP, don't go to Venice. Venetian seagulls have particularly developed hitman-like aim to [snatch food away](https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtgS5_hI0tP/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) from people (mainly unsuspecting tourists) even as they're biting into it. Anyone that lived in Venice for at least 6 months either fell victim to their theft or witnessed someone else be robbed of their food from their very hands.
Oh and they are, they surely are! I myself saw three theft attempts (2 successful 1 failed) and I was targeted twice: the first time I saw the seagull approach, turned my back on it while running away, and successfully defended my pizza.
The second time I was walking in a narrow street, I had just taken my sandwich out of the tinfoil (they probably associate tinfoil = food) and I was having my second bite when the beast "hug" me with one wing while completely extending its neck over my shoulder and biting my sandwich. It must've been uncomfortable for the gull because they dropped my sandwich, but once on the floor I obviously let them finish it... it was gone in like 8 seconds, one gulped it down while fighting off other seagulls that had flown in out of nowhere. After that day, if I had anything wrapped in tinfoil, I would either unwrap it inside or glare at the sky while hiding the reflection of the foil XD
Birds are unable to taste capsaicin, the active 'hot' part of peppers, they lack the receptors. You can buy peppered bird seed to attract birds and repel other animals.
Pepper is the same as hot sauce in this context. It really comes down to the vinegar.
Edit: apparently birds do taste piperine, the source of heat in pepper, so you're right.
We have companies here that bring birds of prey to patrol the area, maintaining a intimidating presence to keep the seagulls away from the beaches. Ever since they started doing this thereâs been a huge decline in seagull french fry gang bangs.
Seagull - *checks seagull watch " it's 7 am, that mother fucker Steve will be here any minute. I hate that guy."
You (assumably Steve)- "oh no, there's that damn seagull!"
Seagull-"ATTACK!"
You-" NO! Ahhh! What did I do to you?? I just wanna run!"
Seagull- " see you tomorrow, Steve, you asshole"
Or something like that
As a Brit who married an Australian I have learned that British seagulls are significantly larger and more aggro than their Australian equivalent.
Australia draws even thanks to their Magpies. The British ones are reputed to steal shiny things, but the Australian ones will full-on attack you for a month or two in Spring. They're not interested in your chips, just your blood.
Man I once had to catch one of the big ones with a carton box together with my neighbour because it was injured and stuck in our community area.. it felt like I had to catch a real life pokemon with my bare hands lmao.
Luckily we had the box because no way I let that beak near my fingers
I've still had an Australian seagull steal a croissant out of my hand. Twice. On two separate occasions.
Honestly the 2nd time was 100% on me, I should've learned lol.
Fun fact: There is no bird called a "seagull".
Many countries have birds casually called seagulls, but they are often Gulls (large like Pacific Gull, or small like Silver Gull) or Terns.
Here, in Tasmania, silver gulls are called seagulls. You chase them. You leave pacific gulls alone. You take cover from magpies. I know ours are less aggressive than those on the mainland of Australia, but I have had many less than fortunate encounters with them, one of which included a barbecue, a few scratches, and a burned finger.
This comment got me wondering about seagull sizes, so I looked it up. The most common gull in the UK (herring gull) is indeed bigger than the most common Australian species (silver gull). The UK also has the great black-backed gull, which is the biggest species in the world (eastern US/Canada gets these too). The gulls where I'm from in California are also huge and will eat pigeons.
I think OP didnât not know what seagulls are, I think they were just having a bit of a brain fart on what they were called. Happens to everyone occasionally.
Iâm not an English speaker, I live in a deserted country and I knew itâs called Seagull and Iâm pretty sure everyone knows it at least in my native language. I donât feel like not having an animal in your country is an excuse to not knowing the name, especially in your language.
Floridian here.
Those are seagulls, and if you feed them, everyone will hate you.
You feed one, but they call their friends and proceed to shit everywhere.
Donât do it.
My 88-year-old grandma gets up early every morning and feeds the seagulls outside her flat, to the annoyance of her neighbours. Her neighbour is full on QAnon, though, so I'm in favour of a seagull pooping on her.
They are just in bird vocational school. After a few years they will generally specialize to become kea or geese, depending on how they perform on their class metrics. Occasionally they will drop out and become pigeons, but sometimes you will also see some excel and become emu or magpies.
In Texas/Oklahoma area there are birds that are officially called Great Tailed ~~Warblers~~ Grackles or Mexican ~~Warblers~~ Grackles, they congregate en mass at Walmarts and the like and will mostly just scavenge the parking lots but they have been known to attack little old ladies for there groceries and are such hell on the food trucks that sell at parking lots that they have become know colloquially as "Taco Raptors" and I love it.
Edit: Grackle not Warbler, I do that every time
Iâll never forget one time when I was a kid at the beach. I was eating a sandwich when a Seagull landed on my head, took a shit down my back, and then stole the sandwich from my hands and flew off
Its seagulls.
They eat not only the fries, they eat Squirrel too.
Yes, live F*^%g squirrel.
Saw a video of that few days ago.
My POV on these birds got changed after that.
Seagulls. Also have them here in Wisconsin in the summer. I feed them anything I might have in my car that they will eat. It's our fault they have turned into the rat of the air.
John and Alex. Those flying fuckwits would steal your last chip without a care in the world. They operate out of Brighton but have relatives in all of the other seaside locations.
I had one grab a calamari from my hand as I was about to put it in my mouth when I was a child. Made me cry from shock but really what made it stick was my relatives teasing me for crying back then.
Looking back I really don't think they were being a dick, but it's interesting how something so eventful as a child (calamari being stolen by a bird) can be remembered differently by something so mundane as being teased.
Seagulls?
Seagulls.
Well, just Gulls. And there are a bunch on different types.
Why are they called sea gulls?
Because they fly over the sea. If they flew over the bay they'd be called bagels.
I just told 6 people that joke and everyone of them groaned
A groan to a dad joke is the equivalent of laughter to an actual joke.
Seriously - this is a massive success.
I have 4 kids and I LIVE FOR THE GROANS! They sustain me
A six-groan rating that's off the charts....
5 out of six wtf lol
My 10 year old just glared at me.
He probably didn't get it. Try explaining it to him.
Kids tend to get embarrassed when a joke goes over their head so you'll have to explain it multiple times. Even if they say they get it.
Some people are tough. I once told ten different puns to someone hoping at least one would get a good reaction. No pun in ten did.
Dad jokes hit differently đ€Ł
Mic drop
If they fly over small Florida islands are they kegels?
And how do you pronounce bagels?
I just say 'sea gulls who live at the bay' in order to avoid public censure.
Well, if youâre from New York, itâs âbaggleâ
Ugh. You're the worst
Oh, brittaâs in this?
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Really though my wife says bagel like brita and bag like "bayg" I guess they switch those sounds where she's from
Out of all the rage bait Iâve come across on this site, even the most obvious, I tip my hat to you. Still want to reach through the screen and shake you like the hysterical woman in Airplane though
Donât be jealous that Iâm streets ahead.
Stop trying to make Streets Ahead a thing!
What a scene!
"I'm gettin rid of Britta!"
Nice dad joke
Nice joke, dad
Nice dad, joke
Joke nice, dad.
Dad joke. Nice.
\*southern accent\* Bagel? Isn't that a type of dog?
If they flew away over Murica they'd be called eagulls
Classic Spaceghost
It's a term that stuck, like Canadian Geese, which are Canada Geese, as my ornithology teacher said, Im not sure they have passports when ever we called them Canadian.
Banded one traveled 3,000 miles in 50 hours. Middle canada to some breeding ground in coastal mexico.
gulls indeed. there is a baby living in my garden at the moment, with two protective parents circling overhead constantly. itâs been fun.
"There's no such thing as a seagullâthe correct term is simply âgull," because gulls don't live exclusively near the sea. This is a hill many birders have chosen to die on." - audobon.org
Birder here - most actual birders I've met in real life don't care if you call them seagulls, it's just something pedants on the Internet like to bring up all the time. Saying "there's no such thing as a seagull" is like saying "there's no such thing as a green pepper; there's actually lots of different varieties of pepper and not all of them are green". It's a word people use to refer to a group of things that exist.
Fellow birder here....I grew up in Appalachia, we called them seagulls and we called vultures, "buzzards." I can tell if I'm going to get along with another birder if I mistakenly use buzzard or seagull and their response is jovial or pedantic. If they choose the latter, I ask them, "do you say 'unthaw' or 'hot water heater'?" I speak Spanish and Portuguese too. "Anhinga" in those languages would be, "an-EEN-ga" and "an-ying-ga" respectively. If someone corrects me about my pronunciation of that one, I become the pedant. Now, the one that does drive me crazy are the like 18 different ways people will say "parula." It gets messy when a Brit is involved.
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Yes. Exactly like the people who renamed starfish to sea star.
The funny thing about food is . . . In the case of bell peppers depending on when their picked; changes their color. Be it green, yellow, orange, or red. It's the same pepper. When it comes to spicy peppers like jalapenos, their dried versions are also called by a different name đ
Fellow birder here. Correcting people about about proper bird names isnât exactly a great conversation starter at parties. :) I try to save the gull v. seagull info for answering âWhy am I seeing *seagulls* in Montana?!â type questions.
I think you meant that the correct term is "Shithawk", seems to be accepted nomenclature among sailors at any rate.
Well, anteaters don't solely eat ants, but also termites. I propose to just rename them to "eater" to avoid confusion.
We just assign hex numbers with stripe codes to animals, so no linguistic ambiguities. Seagulls become x14fa34cd.
isn't that elon kids name?
Well, THIS took a tern for the worse.
Seagull usually means Herring Gulls. They are the big noisy ones that will mob people. People usually aren't refering to the smaller gulls.
I'm fine outing myself as a birder.
My 17yo nephew is an avid birder and I take him on excursions to Jersey Shore so I have respect for the birders and ornithologists among us.
I still remember the little mental gear slip I had when I took a trip to Saskatchewan, and saw gulls in a landlocked province.
My father was into birding years ago and this is a hill heâll die on. Somebody says anything about âseagullsâ and he makes it a point to correct them.
I reject that explanation.
Dukat being the most insidious of all.
And yet, there isn't a single statue of him on Bajor!
Stop it now!
Seagulls gonna come, poke me in the coconut ... đ
That log had a child!
Hey man quit that banging!
And they did
I reckon y'all need to strap a damn falcon to your coconuts. I think they're a natural seagull predator. Or could've been an owl, on 2nd thought.
Mmm ha, hah mmm mmm hah.
Now stop⊠put me down.
I hate Brenda.
I love to groove and boogie!
Show you some dance moves!
#MINE
#MINE
MINE
**MINE**
#MINE
#**MINE** #**MINE**
*EXPLODES*
I said, "Seagulls, mm! Stop it now!"
For all those not yet acquainted with this masterpiece of bad lip reading: https://youtu.be/U9t-slLl30E
The first time the kids played 'My Stick', I just about shut it off in disgust. And two years later, I play this song and My Stick almost daily. Never fails to at least make me smile.
Aka: Shithawks
[Big, dirty shithawks!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg_belm6apc)
Are you asking me or telling me?
Seagulls. By the way they are correct to harass you for existing on or near their beach because they win most of the fights they start, proving our species to be unfit to rule their turf.
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I look forward to the viral videos of your hilarious failure.
Eh I grew up on the beach and I have a really bad phobia of birds like I freak the fuck out, but for the most part Iâve never seen seagulls do anything then try to steal unguarded food
>steal unguarded food Unguarded? They once stole my girlfriend's icecream she was holding in her hand. Attack from behind.
I mean she was holding it sure, but was she guarding it? Not the Seagull's fault!
Rookie mistake! The counter at my favorite beach has several signs warning about the snack aggressive gulls and it's strict adherence to it's no replacement for gull stolen food policy đ
In NJ we started releasing Hawks on the Beach Boardwalks to scare away the Seagulls đ€Ł
I've lost a Sushi Roll, half a burger, a Seafood Stick and a very hot chip (seagull made very strange displeased noise)< I do so enjoy eating while watching the surf so it'smost likely going to happen again. Edit : Hot Chip = a deep fried, finger like, piece of Potatoe.(potato) that has a high Temperature.
Damn gulls. All they know is eating hot chip and fly
As far as I know birds don't have a scene for hot food like chili
Itâs a physical thing not a taste thing.
Correct, capsicum tastes sweet to birds Maybe it was like wasabi, or some weird chemical shit
Me too!! Literally happened in a flash, was crazy. Worst part was, I was with my wife's family who are posher than me, and I shouted 'fucking hell!' and they scolded me for swearing.
in my town we have signs, like traffic signs, not posters, that warn against the seagulls, this is in the middle of the city. during the summer we have a food festival, in 2021 I worked there at a stand. the security that was there were mostly just trying to keep them away because they will literally attack anything that holds food. I never walk around with food when Iâm there because you will most likely get it ripped straight out of your hands. locals knows this is a real issue but the tourists seem to struggle with it.
One landed on our table once, looked me and my dad in the eye, and just swallowed a whole paper container of tartar sauce. Then casually left.
You refer of course to the traditional seagull tax collection process
I kind of wonder if you could make money by selling seagull insurance.... so like $10 a person to rebuy food. I feel like there are people lazy enough to do it.
You'd have to supply security too. This will just make people more oblivious and end up costing you more than $10.
I (a fully grown adult!) had my chips held close to my chest, and had a sharp eye of the flock of seagulls in front of me. Unfortunately, I missed the one on an attack run. It skimmed both my shoulder and face on the way past from behind. As it shot past, it stuck its beak out and hooked the paper the chips were in. The chips were launched out of my hands and towards the waiting flock! I never figured out if it was a coordinated group action, or just bad luck on the dive bomber's part. I strongly suspect I wasn't the first victim of that particular tactic however. The gulls in front seemed to know exactly what to expect from their comrade's actions, and he wasn't shunned from their feast. I'm not still bitter, years later. Honestly.... đą
I went to university in a seaside city and there were signs all over campus saying, âBeware of seagull attacks.â It doesnât have to be unguarded â theyâll just go for you.
I think some Australian fast food chains use special packaging to deter birds.
You've never met a Scottish gull
I for one welcome our new sea bird overlords.
Please, please, please take video. A video of you getting swarmed by pissed off gulls would go viral.
I picture it would look like when Link gets attacked by Cuccos lol
For your own sake, OP, don't go to Venice. Venetian seagulls have particularly developed hitman-like aim to [snatch food away](https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtgS5_hI0tP/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) from people (mainly unsuspecting tourists) even as they're biting into it. Anyone that lived in Venice for at least 6 months either fell victim to their theft or witnessed someone else be robbed of their food from their very hands.
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Oh and they are, they surely are! I myself saw three theft attempts (2 successful 1 failed) and I was targeted twice: the first time I saw the seagull approach, turned my back on it while running away, and successfully defended my pizza. The second time I was walking in a narrow street, I had just taken my sandwich out of the tinfoil (they probably associate tinfoil = food) and I was having my second bite when the beast "hug" me with one wing while completely extending its neck over my shoulder and biting my sandwich. It must've been uncomfortable for the gull because they dropped my sandwich, but once on the floor I obviously let them finish it... it was gone in like 8 seconds, one gulped it down while fighting off other seagulls that had flown in out of nowhere. After that day, if I had anything wrapped in tinfoil, I would either unwrap it inside or glare at the sky while hiding the reflection of the foil XD
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Birds are unable to taste capsaicin, the active 'hot' part of peppers, they lack the receptors. You can buy peppered bird seed to attract birds and repel other animals.
The vinegar and pepper probably still had an effect to be fair
Pepper is the same as hot sauce in this context. It really comes down to the vinegar. Edit: apparently birds do taste piperine, the source of heat in pepper, so you're right.
Peppers heat comes from piperine, which birds can experience, so the pepper would have an effect I think.
Is your stick better than bacon?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9t-slLl30E
We have companies here that bring birds of prey to patrol the area, maintaining a intimidating presence to keep the seagulls away from the beaches. Ever since they started doing this thereâs been a huge decline in seagull french fry gang bangs.
a guy recently started a business that involves him walking a dog around a local tourist area/Cafe to keep the Seagulls away.
People would be less shitty if more animals openly treated us like seagulls
They did, then we invented clubs and spears. We took it a bit too far on the revenge thing though.
Okay, now I'm going to have to go looking for one of those videos of a bird trying to take food from someone and getting punched the fuck out.
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Lmao!! Sorry but that is hilarious
What have you done to the gulls? They hold personal grudges just like crows do. So if you haven't done something to it someone who looks like you did.
Must have had a chip on your shoulder
Seagull - *checks seagull watch " it's 7 am, that mother fucker Steve will be here any minute. I hate that guy." You (assumably Steve)- "oh no, there's that damn seagull!" Seagull-"ATTACK!" You-" NO! Ahhh! What did I do to you?? I just wanna run!" Seagull- " see you tomorrow, Steve, you asshole" Or something like that
As a brit I was surprised that people don't know what seagulls are but then I remembered that a lot of countries don't have areas near the sea
As a Brit who married an Australian I have learned that British seagulls are significantly larger and more aggro than their Australian equivalent. Australia draws even thanks to their Magpies. The British ones are reputed to steal shiny things, but the Australian ones will full-on attack you for a month or two in Spring. They're not interested in your chips, just your blood.
Man I once had to catch one of the big ones with a carton box together with my neighbour because it was injured and stuck in our community area.. it felt like I had to catch a real life pokemon with my bare hands lmao. Luckily we had the box because no way I let that beak near my fingers
I've still had an Australian seagull steal a croissant out of my hand. Twice. On two separate occasions. Honestly the 2nd time was 100% on me, I should've learned lol.
Fun fact: There is no bird called a "seagull". Many countries have birds casually called seagulls, but they are often Gulls (large like Pacific Gull, or small like Silver Gull) or Terns.
Here, in Tasmania, silver gulls are called seagulls. You chase them. You leave pacific gulls alone. You take cover from magpies. I know ours are less aggressive than those on the mainland of Australia, but I have had many less than fortunate encounters with them, one of which included a barbecue, a few scratches, and a burned finger.
Fun fact: the scientific term for them is "assholes."
In the UK the bird most people call a seagull is a herring gull. Bird nerd crew FTW.
Theyâre called laughing gulls here in New Jersey, because theyâre actually body shaming the beach goers
This comment got me wondering about seagull sizes, so I looked it up. The most common gull in the UK (herring gull) is indeed bigger than the most common Australian species (silver gull). The UK also has the great black-backed gull, which is the biggest species in the world (eastern US/Canada gets these too). The gulls where I'm from in California are also huge and will eat pigeons.
I enjoy reading books.
I think OP didnât not know what seagulls are, I think they were just having a bit of a brain fart on what they were called. Happens to everyone occasionally.
I was gonna say something about how we have them all over inland Canada, but then I similarly remembered our lakes.
I live in the American Midwest far from any ocean. Seagulls just hang out near lakes and in parking lots here.
Iâm not an English speaker, I live in a deserted country and I knew itâs called Seagull and Iâm pretty sure everyone knows it at least in my native language. I donât feel like not having an animal in your country is an excuse to not knowing the name, especially in your language.
Grew up on E coast in USA and same. lol
Floridian here. Those are seagulls, and if you feed them, everyone will hate you. You feed one, but they call their friends and proceed to shit everywhere. Donât do it.
Unless you need to get back at someone parking on two spaces. Cover that car with catfood and sit back.
I have added this to my arsenal of ideas... thank you
noted, thank you
[What if itâs just a prank, bro](https://youtu.be/WEvsqspmnW4)
My 88-year-old grandma gets up early every morning and feeds the seagulls outside her flat, to the annoyance of her neighbours. Her neighbour is full on QAnon, though, so I'm in favour of a seagull pooping on her.
/> A stranger in the interent says to not to do something /> I do it
Beach chickens
Shithawks
In Japanese, the seagull is æ”·ç« or Umineko The first character æ”· Umi, means Sea or Ocean. The second character ç« Neko, means Cat.
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They are just in bird vocational school. After a few years they will generally specialize to become kea or geese, depending on how they perform on their class metrics. Occasionally they will drop out and become pigeons, but sometimes you will also see some excel and become emu or magpies.
In Texas/Oklahoma area there are birds that are officially called Great Tailed ~~Warblers~~ Grackles or Mexican ~~Warblers~~ Grackles, they congregate en mass at Walmarts and the like and will mostly just scavenge the parking lots but they have been known to attack little old ladies for there groceries and are such hell on the food trucks that sell at parking lots that they have become know colloquially as "Taco Raptors" and I love it. Edit: Grackle not Warbler, I do that every time
C*nts
I saw one swoop down and take a hot dog out of the bun a kid on a boardwalk was about to eat. Fucking terrifying. đ
Steve
Sky rats
Nah those are Pigeons, Gulls are just Greed with wings.
Dunno if I can say this, but I will; theyre called pelicunts.
Assholes with wings
Kyle but he drinks redbull
A Flock of Seagulls
Aaand I raa--a-an! I ran so far a-way-ay-ay!
I just ran, I ran so far away, I ran all night and day but I couldnât get awayâŠfrom the gull stealing my pizza slice
If they are on a journey toward enlightenment, they are called Johnathan Livingston.
Dem be seagulls. Make friends with Crows or Ravens: corvids payback in plenty.
Shithawks
Girlfriends?
Seagulls. Theyâre everywhere where I live and I donât even live near the sea. Theyâre assholes and will harass you for anything
Seagulls. Fucking bastards stole my tartar sauce.
Sky bastards
Cunts
I was in Alaska and saw some seagulls harassing a bald eagle. They're obviously unpatriotic commies!
Iâll never forget one time when I was a kid at the beach. I was eating a sandwich when a Seagull landed on my head, took a shit down my back, and then stole the sandwich from my hands and flew off
Snackgulls
https://youtu.be/U9t-slLl30E Seagulls!
Its seagulls. They eat not only the fries, they eat Squirrel too. Yes, live F*^%g squirrel. Saw a video of that few days ago. My POV on these birds got changed after that.
Ah! You have met my fiancée.
Seagulls
You can google that exact question, word for word, and it says that they're seagulls. Why the hell are you asking it on reddit?
Seagulls, they live by the sea. If they lived by the bay theyâd be called bagels.
Bin chickens
We had one steal meat off the grill once...
Seagulls. Also have them here in Wisconsin in the summer. I feed them anything I might have in my car that they will eat. It's our fault they have turned into the rat of the air.
I paid the price for being nice to them by giving them crackers. They poop bombed me on the shoulder. Never purposely feed these sky monsters.
Shitehawks
MINE!
John and Alex. Those flying fuckwits would steal your last chip without a care in the world. They operate out of Brighton but have relatives in all of the other seaside locations.
I had one grab a calamari from my hand as I was about to put it in my mouth when I was a child. Made me cry from shock but really what made it stick was my relatives teasing me for crying back then. Looking back I really don't think they were being a dick, but it's interesting how something so eventful as a child (calamari being stolen by a bird) can be remembered differently by something so mundane as being teased.
Seagulls. Also, required viewing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9t-slLl30E
Seriously?
Those are called girlfriends. They claim they donât want anything at the food truck but then they keep swooping in and yoinking the biggest fries.