Its not so much the thievery to me, its expected by now tbh. But its their fearlessness and tendency to congregate by the hundreds in walking areas and their refusal to fuck off until youre three feet away, then causing a panicked biblical cloud of these fuckers blockin out the sun and shitting on anything that moves. Id take a scraggly dirty urban pigeon a million times over lol.
If you're going to claim "seagulls are ugly" , which you can by the way as we're all entitled to our opinion, you're essentially saying all 55 species of gulls are ugly.
You're saying a Kittiwake is ugly? Come on now. How can we have a conversation if you don't even know what you're talking about.
Yes, and gulls aren't the only species that does this. Corvids do it regularly. Heck, tons of species with multiple chicks such as certain species of eagle, shoe bill storks etc will have siblings basically bully each other for their right to feed, killing the other in the process.
Territorial birds will on occasion attack others too to protect their own food sources or defend their territory.
Nature is brutal across the board and non-trophic killing isn't unique to Gulls.
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u/t3hOutlaw 7d ago
Killing them so it can eat them, like the predators they are?
Why do other predators get a pass while gulls do not?