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Seagull Behaviour

  • 24-06-2017 05:23PM
    #1
    mel.b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭


    I was just sitting watching a seagull and was wondering what it was doing. It had something black (a fish is my guess from the shape of it, but i was a bit of a distance away) and it flew up several metres high and dropped the object. He then picked it up and repeated this process over and over. My first thought was that whatever it was was attached to some string or a line and that it couldn't go any higher, but then i wondered if it was dropping the object in order to kill it? Anyone know?


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  • #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Gulls often drop molluscs and hard shelled foods to crack them open.


  • #3
    seagull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭seagull


    I'd go with trying to crack open some kind of shell fish.

    I've sometimes looked at the number of attempts, and wondered if the food value of the item is more than the energy spent getting at it.


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