Talk:Gull

message: Which exact species of seagull would I find in Toronto? Is it just one, or would it be several? What about New Brunswick?--Sonjaaa 18:13, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Sonjaaa - Though someone watching this talk page may see and answer your question, Your best bet would be to post the same question in one of Wikipedia's Reference Desk categories... either Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Science or Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Miscellaneous. I hope this helps! --AbsolutDan (talk) 21:08, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm pretty sure it's the Ring-billed gull that lives in Toronto. I'll check New Brunswick soon and will post here as soon as I can.--~PogoNoodle~ (talk) 22:34, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: which species?

message: Would seagulls eat a dead swan or other large bird? thanks for your help !
:As I mentioned to Sonjaaa above, though someone watching this talk page may see and answer your question, your best bet would be to post the same question in one of Wikipedia's Reference Desk categories... either Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Science or Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Miscellaneous. --AbsolutDan (talk) 16:46, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: depends - some species like kittiwake only eat live fish, others like Ivory Gull will even feed on whale and porpoise carcasses jimfbleak 19:34, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Gulls will eat just about anything organic if they're hungry enough in any way so they eat a lot totally. They seem to prefer human food where it's available though. --Kurt Shaped Box 20:24, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's certainly true that many gull species will eat anything reasonably easy to consume, such as human scraps, but most will not feed at large carcasses, if only because, unlike vultures and crows, they are not equiped to do so (the exception is Ivory Gull). I have never seen specialised species such as kittiwakes or Little Gulls come to scraps. jimfbleak 05:14, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've seen herring gulls and great black-backed gulls feeding on sheep carcasses before. There was also a dead porpoise that washed up on the beach here, which the gulls were all over until it was removed. They'll also have a go at the occasional human carcass that washes up too. Their beaks are definitely sharp enough to tear away pieces of dead meat - I once saw a herring gull eating big chunks from a palette of old, rancid cow hides at my local harbor. Perhaps I *was* generalizing when I said that 'gulls' will eat anything organic - but the gulls I am familiar with most certainly will. --Kurt Shaped Box 06:21, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do Seagulls eat meat? 

message: I don't know why but i seem to think that gulls are just so weird thats its scary. not that im being gull racist but its just something i have a bad felling about...Plus I work out at a golf corse and the gulls will tear up the grass and make it fell your plying pinball when your putting.--Kunz506 21:36, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gull problem 

message: I took a picture of a baby gull today, but I have no idea what kind it is. Any help would be appreciated! κаллэмакс 20:05, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure myself - baby gulls of most species tend to look very similar. Have you tried asking at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science? That page gets far more traffic than this one and someone there is bound to know... --Kurt Shaped Box 21:37, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image help 

message: Why is the Link to Wiktionary above the taxobox rather than in external links, like other interwiki links? Sabine's Sunbird  talk 03:06, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  interwiki link 

message: does a gull need fresh water or can it live on salt/brackish water69.115.99.240 22:15, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It depends on what kind of gull. But I think if you put a fresh water gull out at sea, it'll adapt.--~PogoNoodle~ (talk) 22:34, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: All gulls are essentially marine, at least outside the breeding season. Wintering inland is  relatively recent phenomenon for most species, aided by reservoirs to roost on and rubbish tips for food. Jimfbleak (talk) 05:56, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

text: As I understand it, most gulls are capable of drinking and processing salt water. They have the ability to excrete the excess salt through their nostrils (poss. tear ducts too?) as a concentrated brine solution. From my personal observations, it seems that they do prefer to drink fresh water, if available. --Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 12:04, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  seagulls 

message: The gallery is getting rather full of pictures. Perhaps a purge of images without any species and locality info is in order. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 22:20, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed a few images of 'gulls in flight' that were near-duplicates - as well as the 'human feeding the gulls pic', which was just a pretty poor picture IMO. Some of the others I'm unsure about removing - I think it's a 'good thing' to document a several of the species in the main article itself to illustrate the diversity of gulls' appearances. The gallery can be trimmed to the bone/removed when the article is expanded and the images are incorporated into the body text. I'd keep the pictures of the chick and gull eggs too. --Kurt Shaped Box 17:51, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Gulls aren't hard to photograph, so where possible the remaining images of unidentified gulls can probably be replaced with better images of known species. Also images of Heerman's Gulls, Ross's Gulls and Lava Gulls (there is one here would give a better idea of the range of potential gulliness. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 20:11, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The pics listed as 'seagulls' actually had the correct species name listed on the image pages themselves - I've fixed that now. The Lava Gull was a nice find (I've been trying to locate an image myself for some time) - that one should be up there too now too. --Kurt Shaped Box 22:24, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  gallery 

message: Hi, I am not knowledgeable about gulls, but I was wondering if it could be of relevance to have an image of a gull colony in this article? If so, I took this one in Greenland last summer, which the editors of this page might want to consider. Unfortunately, I do not know what species it was, but it was a white-winged gull, and the body seemed very white as well. -- Slaunger (talk) 13:32, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image of gull colony 

message: Removed the following text until it gets sources: "Gulls have been shown to, in certain cases, be able to carry up to a pound of waste from "landfills. If this waste material reaches the ocean, it can become a major source of ocean pollution.
Ufwuct (talk) 14:54, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced, unwikified, and in wrong section

message: in ace combat 04 gulls are seen in the opening and i wanted to as what type they were
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2knu7KXL7M
seemed like the best place to ask  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.63.7.27 (talk) 06:17, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a tough one since it is so stylized. A lot of gulls have slate grey wings with a black edge on the trailing feathers when adult. Common gull, Herring Gull. MBCF (talk) 21:06, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  question 

message: Personally I think the photo is hilarious but others who love seagulls might take offense that this photo shows seagulls in a bad light. They are the best scavengers around and our harbor would be a stinky mess without them but couldn't we replace this photo with something more indicative to what seagulls do? 
At http://goodmorninggloucester.com/ we take a lot of photos of seagulls. Wouldn't a nice photo of two gulls fighting over the entrails of a herring be a better shot to have uppermost in the giull wikipedia page?
I'm running a vote right now to get a consensus and will post back the results. Voting only started at 2PM EST and with 16 votes in the hideous/hilarious/changeit are neck, neck, and neck.
http://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/homey-in-wikipedia/ 
MBCF (talk) 21:03, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two gulls eating a squirrel not really indicative of gulls behavior? 

message: In the 'Diet and feeding' section - can we just get a confirmation that this is correct, per the cited sources? I was under the impression (from watching the gulls) that the larger gulls were much nimbler and more acrobatic in the air and quicker in general. I might be wrong (maybe it's just that they're somewhat impressive and thus more conspicuous), but just flagging that up. --Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 21:44, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: To quote HBW, page 574, "in general... while the smaller species have proportionately longer wings, producing lighter flight with much more manoeuvrability". Sabine's Sunbird  talk 21:58, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, fair do's. Thanks. --Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 23:38, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "smaller species are more manoeuvrable", etc... 

message: I would like to know for what reason so many links to other languages have been removed. I cannot say much about most of them, but the link to e.g. Swahili was perfectly correct in my opinion. Dogo (talk) 15:18, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The changes appear to have been made by this bot, perhaps you should contact its creator, because it sounds harmless, but seems to removing valid links Jimfbleak -  talk to me? 17:01, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links to other languages 

message: Have these been hunted as a food source?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.12.187.199 (talk) 23:51, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  How do they taste? 

message: Is "mew" related to "murre", a slightly different type of sea bird? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 15:20, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Richardson mcphillips, no, according to OED they have always meant gull and auk respectively Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:04, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "older term is mew" 

message: Particularly the second paragraph, for the following reasons:
1. 'Specie' - you don't know how irritated I am by this, because it just shows ignorance. 
2. I'd argue that, because the black-ringed gull is endemic to North America and Mexico, and doesn't occur anywhere else, that it is 'locally common' (as is implied by its scientific name) and, therefore, doesn't meet the criteria for being 'very common' globally. The species might be 'very common' where the author lives but, as its range is confined to a single continent, that it cannot be said to be 'very common' on a worldwide scale. 
3. The use of the word 'variety', in the sense the author has used it, is usually reserved for variants of a cultivated plant species, and I would argue that its use should be kept for that purpose, and to use it as a euphemism for 'species' is incorrect. 
4. No citations 
5. Stylistically poor language
I'd offer to do it myself, but editing articles on an iPad is incredibly difficult (for me at any rate) and I have been known to break things; I'd feel far more confident if I had access to a computer but, unfortunately, at the moment I don't. I'm not sure how to flag this up with the editors of the Birds Portal - does it have its own talk page…? My ornithological knowledge is primarily confined to the UK, I'm afraid (I had to look up Black-ringed Gull' as it was a new one on me!)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.176.202.47 (talk) 17:30, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Might I suggest that this article undergoes a complete rewrite…? 

message: I have observed gulls for around 15 years.  I am a Ups driver who frequently take my break periods by the coast and I have observed some really interesting interactions between gulls,crows, and bald eagles.  Yesterday I had a breakthrough in my observation of gull hierarchy and the education of gull young.  I want to share it. Seagullwatcher (talk) 05:58, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Seagullwatcher, unfortunately we can't accept  original research however well intended, we need independent verifiable sources Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:43, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 29 April 2018 

message: Swedish also use a version of the old word mews - mås, where the å is pronounced like the o in "cord".  Pussilago (talk) 10:55, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seagulls in other languages.  

message: I removed  as a heads up, since families like Laridae don't have type localities. Umimmak (talk) 18:10, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Type locality 

message: Word Hoard:
20 Terms Associated with the Gull:
•	Tertials
o	Definition: of, relating to, or constituting the flight feathers borne on the basal joint of a bird's wing
•	Gonys
o	Definition: the prominent ridge along the line of union of the two halves of the lower mandible of certain birds (as the gulls)
•	Nape
o	Definition: Back of a person’s (or seagull’s) neck
•	Mantle
o	Definition: The Upper Back of a Bird
•	White Headed
•	White Winged
•	Bonaparte’s Gull
o	The Bonaparte's Gull is named after Charles Lucien Bonaparte, a nephew of Napoleon, who was a leading ornithologist in the 1800s in America and Europe. This small gull has an adult body that is roughly 17 inches (45 cm) in length with a wingspan of 35-40 inches (90-100 cm). This gull has a dark gray to black head and bill, a white neck, gray body and wings, and bright orange-red legs and feet. It is one of the few gulls that prefers to nest in trees during mating season. 
•	Keratin
o	a fibrous protein forming the main structural constituent of hair, feathers, hoofs, claws, horns, etc.
•	Incubation
•	Omnivore
•	Provincial
•	Oppressor
•	Coverts
•	Cloaca
•	Eye ring
•	Crown
•	Colony – Group of Seagulls
•	Webbed
•	Carotenoid – Chemical that’s found on the red spot on the tip of the seagull’s long beak.
•	Kelp gull.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by NatureWalker405 (talk • contribs) 16:17, 15 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Word Hoard (Writing Exercise I did relating to the Seagull): (20 terms) 

message: But would it be worth mentioning that they bicker and squabble and lunge/snap at each other whenever there's a group together?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.200.127.203 (talk) 00:08, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gulls are social birds 

message: The article states "A method of obtaining prey unique to gulls involves dropping heavy shells of clams and mussels onto hard surfaces."
I live on the east coast of Scotland (Edinburgh) and have often seen crows doing this. Or rather, I've often seen crows on the coast repeatedly dropping something from a height onto the rocks, very much in the manner in which gulls do it.
So is dropping shellfish really unique to gulls?
Macboff (talk) 09:33, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Macboff, I've removed that claim Jimfbleak - talk to me? 09:45, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is dropping shellfish really unique to gulls? 

message: Added this as part of the feeding ritual, pilfering milk from the elephant seal....even though the citation focuses on feral cats, further down in the article text it is stated:
"A similar behavior was carried out by western gulls; they approached a pup and pecked on the pup's head, causing it to retreat, and then positioned their beak sideways to receive the milk dripping from the teat of the female elephant seal. This was observed several times during our stay at Guadalupe, always during daylight hours. The perpetrators were adult gulls and second year chicks."
   RomanGrandpa (talk) 14:43, 16 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I once saw a video on YouTube where there were a couple of gulls trying to nurse from a seal of some type. Was years ago and I can't find it again now. But it's definitely a thing that happens. The mother seal didn't like it one bit and was trying to bite them when she noticed - but the gulls just jumped backwards a bit and waited until she turned her head away and then scampered back in. Iloveparrots (talk) 17:51, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello Parrot......I found one video on youtube, it sounds very similar to what you were describing, one can't link to youtube at Wiki, but the title is "Seal Pup VS Seagull! A Battle for...Milk?" Regards RomanGrandpa (talk) 19:47, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Milk Stealing

message: L 67.3.31.114 (talk) 19:03, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diet 

message: Gull 139.5.249.8 (talk) 04:45, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gull bird 

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thread_title:  Cloud guy  theory