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SEAGULLSby Janet Spencer

On October 1, 1919, the Mormon church of Salt Lake City unveiled a monument to a bird. Mormon settlers were tending their ripening crops in 1848 when a plague of crickets descended, threatening to ruin the harvest. Fortunately, fl ocks of seagulls arrived, eating all the crickets. The Seagull Monument, designed by Brigham Young’s grandson, is thought to be the world’s only monument to a bird. The seagull is now the state bird of Utah. Come along with Tidbits as we go birdwatching!

SEAGULL FACTS• The term “gull” refers to a group of 23 North American

species belonging to the family Laridae, which comes from the Greek word meaning “ravenous sea bird.”

• Seagulls usually mate for life, but researchers say they do get “divorced” sometimes. Their divorce rate is about 3 to 5% a year.

• A seagull’s feet stay at only 32°f. while the rest of the body’s temperature is 100°f.

• When gulls get mad, they yank grass up by the roots to displace their aggression.

• The herring gull has 63 different calls.• Gulls can live for up to 32 years.

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SEAGULLS (cont’d)• Seagulls have been seen stamping their feet in unison

to imitate rainfall to trick earthworms to come to the surface.

• Gulls are able to drink both fresh and salt water. Most animals are unable to do this, but gulls have a pair of glands above their eyes designed to fl ush the salt from their systems through openings in the bill. This makes it possible for them to spend days at sea without returning to land for fresh water. Given a choice, seagulls prefer fresh water over salt water because processing the salt is an energy-intensive process.

• Adults of many gull species have prominent spots on their bill that serve as visual cues to youngsters. In order to induce adults to regurgitate food, nestlings peck this spot.

• They have a small claw halfway up their lower leg that makes it easy for them to sit on high ledges without getting blown off.

• Gulls nearly went extinct on the East Coast when they were hunted for their feathers.

• Many species of gulls are ‘klepto-parisitic’ meaning that they steal their food from other birds to feed themselves, often using simple intimidation tactics which cause other birds to abandon their meal.

• Seagulls have excellent vision, even better than human’s. They are one of the few birds with eyes that can move in their sockets.

• Gulls often drop clams or other hard-shelled mollusks onto hard rock surfaces to break them open. Researchers found that gulls instinctively know the exact height required to drop a clam so it breaks open. Otherwise, they are wasting energy.

• The most common seagull species is the ring-billed gull, one of the most abundant species across North America. The population is estimated at 3-4 million. (more on next page)

• In a gull colony, when one gull sounds the alarm, the entire fl ock will take to the safety of the skies. However, some gulls are more skittish than others and frequently sound the alarm when it’s not necessary. Observers report that the alarm calls of the jitteriest gulls are routinely ignored by the rest of the colony, just like the boy who cried wolf.

• One ornithologist noted that gulls can be cannibalistic at times, feeding not only on the young of other species of gull, but also occasionally eating their own offspring. The researcher further noted that cannibalism inevitably increased every single Sunday. Why? Because one of their main food sources came from following fi shing trawlers on the ocean. None of the trawlers went out on Sundays because they were all at church.

• A scientist who was capturing and banding gulls was frequently bombarded by angry mobs of the birds who resented the intrusion. Other people could walk through the colony without arousing any attention from the birds, but whenever he set foot near them, they would gang up on him. He tried disguising himself by wearing different clothing and wigs, but they always recognized him. Finally he donned a mask, and the problem was solved. He concluded they recognized him by his facial features.

• Almost half of the bird/plane collisions in the U.S. are due to gulls. Eisenhower was aboard Air Force One when it lost an engine due to a gull being sucked into the engine.

• Orca whales at the Vancouver Aquarium learned that they could train seagulls to come take bits of fi sh out of their mouths.

• Seagulls in Cambridge, Maryland, habitually bombed cars with oyster shells after a parking lot was built over their nesting ground.

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