Facts about seagulls

• Seagulls are very clever. They learn, remember and even pass on behaviours, such as stamping their feet in a group to imitate rainfall and trick earthworms to come to the surface.
• Seagulls’ intelligence is clearly demonstrated by a range of different feeding behaviours, such as dropping hard-shelled molluscs onto rocks so that they break open so they can eat them, and following ploughs in fields where they know upturned grubs and other food sources will be plentiful.
• Seagulls are attentive and caring parents. The male and female pair for life and they take turns incubating the eggs, and feeding and protecting the chicks.
• Gulls have a complex and highly developed repertoire for communication which includes a range of vocalisations and body movements.
• Seagulls can drink both fresh and salt water. Most animals are unable to do this, but seagulls have a special pair of glands right above their eyes which is specifically designed to flush the salt from their systems through openings in the bill.
• There is a great deal of diversity between different gull species, with the smallest being the Little Gull (120 g and 29 cm) and the largest being the Great Black-beaked Gull (1.75 kg and 75 cm).
• A small claw halfway up their lower leg enables them to sit and roost on high ledges without being blown off.
• Young gulls form nursery flocks where they will play and learn vital skills for adulthood. Nursery flocks are watched over by a few adult males and these flocks will remain together until the birds are old enough to breed.
• In Native American symbolism, the seagull represents a carefree attitude, versatility, and freedom.
• Many seagulls have learned to conserve energy by hovering over bridges in order to absorb raising heat from paved roadways

-  are intelligent birds who can learn and remember behaviours.

- They can consume both salt water and fresh water due to special glands above their eyes.

- They have a second claw halfway up their leg to help them maintain their balance without being blown off by the wind.

- Seagulls have excellent vision, better than human vision , in fact they are one of the few birds with eyes that can move in their sockets.

- The seagull is the state bird of Utah with very good reason. They helped the Mormon settlers deal with a plague of crickets that prevented them from settling the "Salt Lake City''. This event is known as the “Miracle of the Gulls.”

- Many species of gulls are ‘kleptoparisitic’ This term means that the birds steal their food from other birds to feed themselves.

- Seagulls are very noisy and are much known for their funny  calls or ‘laughs’ that ranges from ha-ha-ha to hiyak-hiyak, yuk-yuk and more

- Some seagulls live up to 20 or more years.

- Seagulls are affectionate parents and take turns in incubating eggs while nesting

- Seagulls learn,remember and even pass on behaviors, such as stamping their feet in a group to imitate rainfall and trick earthworms to come to the surface.

-They have excellent vision better than human vision in fact,and they are one of the few birds with eyes that can move in their sockets.

-Seagulls are attentive and caring parents. The male and female pair for life and they take turns incubating the eggs, and feeding and protecting the chicks.

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Seagulls are one of the few species of seabirds that can survive drinking salt water, enabling them to venture far out to sea in search of food when necessary. This is made possible by a special pair of glands just above the eyes that flush the salt from their system out through their nostrils.

1) Seagulls are caring parents and work as a mother-father team caring for their chicks

2) Living in captivity can increase a seagulls lifespan by 30 years!

3)  They can latch on to ledges with a small claw on their lower leg – helps with balance on those
windy afternoons!

4)  They are incredibly not picky

5)  Seagulls have the capability to learn how specific behavior can cause provide them with
benefits (ex: learning how to smash open shellfish from parents)

6)  Seagulls can drink both fresh and salt water.

7)  Although their funny feet cause them to be clumsy, they are all terrain birds.

8)  A seagulls natural habitat is cliff faces, but many of them currently inhabit man-made
cliffs including chimneys or roofs. Gulls are more commonly found in the
northern hemispheres and are a less likely sight in the southern part of the
equator.

9) Seagulls have an unusual diet. Some eat bugs, while others
pick through garbage for food. Some even swoop down and steal food right from
the barbecue or beach.

10) They have better eyesight than us.

Their living captivity can increase a seagulls lifespan by 30 years!

Seagulls have the capability to learn how specific behavior can cause provide them with benefits (ex: learning how to smash open shellfish from parents)

I would like to share an experience of my own. 

I was just 4 years old, sitting at the beach with my mom and dad. Making sand castles and all and playing tons of games while my brothers played in the water. I noticed a small shell in the distance. It seemed like no ordinary shell, so I went to get it. It seemed like it was moving and flying. As I came close to it I understood that it was a bird, a sea gull. It took of with a blast scaring me so much. I ran to my parents crying while everyone else at the beach stood and stared...

:)  Seagulls are fun to watch and fun to study as a birdwatcher if you’re into that sort of thing. Once you’ve identified what you think are all the species around the beach, you’ll still find more around.

- They form the family Laridae.

- There are many different types of seagulls, but most of them are white, with grey and black wings, a yellow beak and are about the size of a chicken (but some are small).

- Gulls can eat most types of food but like meat more than anything else.

- They look around for discarded food and dead animals to eat as well as hunting.

- Most types of seagulls are awake during day and sleep at night. They like to sleep on water, like lakes or the sea when the water is calm.

- Seagulls are very clever. They learn, remember and even pass on behaviors, such as stamping their feet in a group to imitate rainfall and trick earthworms to come to the surface.

- Seagulls can drink both fresh and salt water. Most animals are unable to do this, but seagulls have a special pair of glands right above their eyes which is specifically designed to flush the salt from their systems through openings in the bill.

- Seagulls are attentive and caring parents. The male and female pair for life and they take turns incubating the eggs, and feeding and protecting the chicks.

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2)Seagulls are attentive and caring parents. The male and female pair for life and they take turns incubating the eggs, and feeding and protecting the chicks.

3)Gulls have a complex and highly developed repertoire for communication which includes a range of vocalisations and body movements.

4)Seagulls can drink both fresh and salt water. Most animals are unable to do this, but seagulls have a special pair of glands which are specifically designed to flush the salt from their systems through openings in the bill.

5)Young gulls form nursery flocks where they will play and learn vital skills for adulthood. Nursery flocks are watched over by a few adult males and these flocks will remain together until the birds are old enough to breed.

6)In Native American symbolism, the seagull represents a carefree attitude, versatility, and freedom.

7)Many seagulls have learned to conserve energy by hovering over bridges in order to absorb raising heat from paved roadways.

8)The seagull is perhaps best known as being a scavenger. They most often seen in large, noisy flocks congregating wherever food is available. They can almost always be found around fishing boats, picnic grounds, parking lots and garbage dumps.

9)The gulls are relatively uniform in shape but do vary in size and coloration. Seagulls are the acrobats of the sky.

10)They can float motionless in midair by catching wind currents with perfect timing and precision while positioning their bodies at just the right angle.

-NOW FOR SOME INTERESTING FACTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Seagulls can drink both fresh and salt water. Most animals
are unable to do this, but seagulls have a special pair of glands right above
their eyes which is specifically designed to flush the salt from their systems
through openings in the bill.

1*Many seagulls have learned to conserve energy by hovering
over bridges in order to absorb raising heat from paved roadways.

2*A small claw halfway up their lower leg enables them to sit
and roost on high ledges without being blown off.

3*Seagulls have excellent vision, better than human
  vision in fact, and they are one of the few birds with eyes that can move
  in their sockets.
4*Seagulls are expert fliers, having mastered control of
  wind and thermals, sharp directional changes, climbs and dives. They are a
  marvel to watch on windy days as they hover motionless using the wind and
  their superb vision to study the sea life below for potential prey.
5-*THEY ARE REALLY INTELLIGENT.

6*Studies have shown seagulls to have a highly developed,
  complex communication system using a wide range of vocalizations and body
  movements.
7*ISN'T THIS AMAZING , A GROUP OF
SMALL BIRDS....BEING A STATE BIRDstate bird of Utah– the California gull,Larus californicus, is the state bird of Utah. Seagulls are remembered in Utah for helping the Mormon settlers deal with a plague of crickets.
8*Although there funny feet cause them to be clumsy, they are all terrain birds.

ISN'T THIS A SAD THING??????...

though gulls are close to the top predators in the ecosystem, from time to time they meet their
death at the hands of another predator. The worst threat to gulls in many
regions is the sea eagle, including bald eagles. Hungry eagles will swoop
through flocks of gulls, seize one, and squeeze it to death or drown it.
AT LAST THEY ARE ALSO CREATURES WHICH ARE HAVING UNIQUE FACTORS

JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VEDIO ....It's all about a seagull trying to eat whales in argentina.

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* A Bird's first reaction is to fly. 

* Seagulls learn, remember even pass on behaviours, such as stamping their feet in a group to imitate rainfall and trick earthworms to come to the surface.

* Seagulls are attentive and caring parents.

* They feed and protect thier chicks.  

*Seagulls learn to conserve energy.

* Gull or seagull are sea birds from the family. 

* The colour of seagull is grey or white.

* Gulls have only a limited ability to dive below the water in order to feed on deeper prey.

* An older name for gulls is mew.

* Gulls are typically medium to large birds.

* Gulls fly some distance in order to find a suitable surface on which they can drop shells, and there is apparently a learnt component to the task as older birds are more successful than younger ones.

* Gull nests are usually mats of herbaceous matter with a central nest cup. 

* Nests are usually built on the ground.

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• Seagulls are very clever. They learn, remember and even pass on behaviours, such as stamping their feet in a group to imitate rainfall and trick earthworms to come to the surface.

• Seagulls are attentive and caring parents. The male and female pair for life and they take turns incubating the eggs, and feeding and protecting the chicks.

• Many seagulls have learned to conserve energy by hovering over bridges in order to absorb raising heat from paved roadways.

• There is a great deal of diversity between different gull species, with the smallest being the Little Gull (120 g and 29 cm) and the largest being the Great Black-beaked Gull (1.75 kg and 75 cm).

• Seagulls’ intelligence is clearly demonstrated by a range of different feeding behaviours, such as dropping hard-shelled molluscs onto rocks so that they break open so they can eat them, and following ploughs in fields where they know upturned grubs and other food sources will be plentiful.

• Gulls have a complex and highly developed repertoire for communication which includes a range of vocalisations and body movements.

• Seagulls can drink both fresh and salt water. Most animals are unable to do this, but seagulls have a special pair of glands right above their eyes which is specifically designed to flush the salt from their systems through openings in the bill.

Sea gulls mostly grey or white or sometimes both.

They webbed feet.

Sea gulls re carnivores.

Sea gulls eat live food like crab and small fish.

Gulls have unhinging jaws which allow them to consume large prey. 

Large white-headed gulls are typically long-lived birds.

They live up to age 49 maximum.

Gulls nest in large, densely packed noisy colonies.

They lay two to three speckled eggs in nests composed of vegetation.

Seagulls learn, remember and even pass on behaviours, such as stamping their feet in a group to imitate rainfall and trick earthworms to come to the surface.

Sea gulls are also "rats with wings" by people sometimes.

The Sea gulls have learned life is easier if they hang out around humans.

 They are smart enough to know where food is plentiful. 

This is link where you can get a lot more information about sea gulls.

This the link :- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEnmP61yzNw

• Seagulls are attentive and caring parents. The male and female pair for life and they take turns incubating the eggs, and feeding and protecting the chicks.
• Gulls have a complex and highly developed repertoire for communication which includes a range of vocalisations and body movements.
• Seagulls can drink both fresh and salt water. Most animals are unable to do this, but seagulls have a special pair of glands right above their eyes which is specifically designed to flush the salt from their systems through openings in the bill.
• There is a great deal of diversity between different gull species, with the smallest being the Little Gull (120 g and 29 cm) and the largest being the Great Black-beaked Gull (1.75 kg and 75 cm).
• A small claw halfway up their lower leg enables them to sit and roost on high ledges without being blown off.
• Young gulls form nursery flocks where they will play and learn vital skills for adulthood. Nursery flocks are watched over by a few adult males and these flocks will remain together until the birds are old enough to breed.
• In Native American symbolism, the seagull represents a carefree attitude, versatility, and freedom.
• Many seagulls have learned to conserve energy by hovering over bridges in order to absorb raising heat from paved roadways.

• Seagulls are very clever. They learn, remember and even pass on behaviours, such as stamping their feet in a group to imitate rainfall and trick earthworms to come to the surface.
• Seagulls’ intelligence is clearly demonstrated by a range of different feeding behaviours, such as dropping hard-shelled molluscs onto rocks so that they break open so they can eat them, and following ploughs in fields where they know upturned grubs and other food sources will be plentiful
• Larger seagulls often live near the ocean and nest on rocky islets, but the mew gull not only nests inland, but in the top of trees. Unlike most “white-headed” gull species, mew gulls lack any markings on their bill. 
• Seagulls learn, remember and even pass on behaviours, such as stamping their feet in a group to imitate rainfall and trick earthworms to come to the surface  
• A small claw halfway up their lower leg enables them to sit and roost on high ledges without being blown off.
• Young gulls form nursery flocks where they will play and learn vital skills for adulthood. Nursery flocks are watched over by a few adult males and these flocks will remain together until the birds are old enough to breed.

• Seagulls are monogamous creatures that mate for life and rarely divorce. They have a strong societal structure that works very effectively against predators to their breeding colonies, as they will gang up on the intruder with up to a hundred gulls and drive them away, on occasion even driving them out to sea to drown.

• As parents, seagulls are attentive and caring, with both involved in incubating the eggs as well as feeding and protecting the chicks until they fledge.

• Seagulls are one of the few species of seabirds that can survive drinking salt water, enabling them to venture far out to sea in search of food when necessary. This is made possible by a special pair of glands just above the eyes that flush the salt from their system out through their nostrils.

• Seagulls have excellent vision, better than human vision in fact, and they are one of the few birds with eyes that can move in their sockets.

• Seagulls are expert fliers, having mastered control of wind and thermals, sharp directional changes, climbs and dives. They are a marvel to watch on windy days as they hover motionless using the wind and their superb vision to study the sea life below for potential prey.

(so that im not found guilty of plagiarism :-D)

Seagulls are birds in the family Laridae.can be found around the oceans worldwide with the exception of some central Pacific islands, and some areas in Southeast Asia.They can float motionless in midair by catching wind currents with perfect timing and precision while positioning their bodies at just the right angle.
The seagull is perhaps best known as being a scavenger. It is most often seen in large, noisy flocks congregating wherever food is available. They can almost always be found around fishing boats, picnic grounds, parking lots and garbage dumps.Many people consider the gull to be a nuisance, but they actually perform a very valuable service. They are garbage men (sanitation engineers for the politically correct) with wings. They scavenge up great numbers of dead animals and organic litter which could pose a health threat to humans. There are many types of seagulls, they are:

Black Legged Kitiwake,  Bonaparte'sGull  California Gull, Common Black Headed Gull, Franklin's Gull, Glaucous Gull, Glaucous Winged Gull and many more........

Larger seagulls often live near the ocean and nest on rocky islets, but the mew gull not only nests inland, but in the top of trees.Unlike most “white-headed” gull species, mew gulls lack any markings on their bill. The mew gull is commonly identified by its dovelike appearance and the harsh call that gives it its name.