A helpless seagull chick was found glued to a wall and riddled with maggots in the most horrible thing a rescuer had seen. Bird emergency responder Jennifer Steer was called to a seagull chick in Exmouth, Devon, which was freed by police officers but was in desperate need of medical attention. With maggots crawling through […]
Tag: Gull
Should feeding gulls be banned to prevent pollution of beaches?
According to ornithology specialists, warnings on Scottish beaches not to feed gulls because their droppings contribute to water pollution are “massively out of proportion.” The posters, which are a part of Keep Scotland Beautiful’s My Beach Your Beach campaign, have additionally come under fire for “demonizing” gulls and adding to the widespread misunderstanding of bird […]
South coast
Today I worked with NPA marine rangers on seabird identification near Ashkelon. There were no proper seabirds around, so we made do with gull identification. Can’t get any better than that. We spent a bit of time inside Ashkelon NP, then checked for some gull rafts inside the coal depot. At one secluded spot a […]
Breakfast Flock
In Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach wrote about a gull that “… was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all.” I watched a flock of gulls dashing and darting at the outflow of an open watergate, feeding on something in the roiling water. I couldn’t […]
Iceland Gull (Larus glaucoides)
Every year since 2010 I have been photographing the Iceland Gulls that spend the winter in the parking lot at Plymouth Harbor, Massachusetts.