Well here is a strange bit of video from the BBC:
1. Strange because the newscaster refers to the birds as seagulls (oh BBC, I expected so much more from you).
2. It’s a story about gulls tearing pieces of flesh of the backs of live whales that surface the water.
On the one hand, you have to admire a creature’s ability to be adaptable and find an ample food source, especially such a comparatively small aerial animal feeding off of such a large marine mammal. But on the other had, it’s a scary testament of how imbalances occur at the expense of other creatures by human habits.
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They look like Kelp Gulls, Larus dominicanus. I saw a lot of them in Ushuaia when I went to Antarctica. The video isn’t all that clear, but Kelp Gull is a reasonable assumption.
BBC using the term seagulls instead of gulls or naming a species is fairly common although very weird. They sometimes even say things like “gulls, seagulls, cormorants, and petrels” as if gulls and seagulls were two different things.
Just got a advert for David Bowie. I really hate those intrusive inserts, The headline told about the gulls (sic) and whale, but no pictures of it.
Weird! I don’t know why you got Bowie and I’m a tad jealous–I love David Bowie. I just checked the link and I get the story and now adverts. Not sure what’s going on unless I have some weird ad blocking power.
No ads for me, just a weirdly disconcerting story.
In the spring and sunner the RING BILL GULLS arrive in YREKA CA they like to hang around McDONALDS,BUGER KING and CARLS Jr and a WALMART and RAILEYS stores