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I compared Mediterranean gully with other Wiki language pages and this seem pretty messed up:
, whereas "Mediterranean" (en)= "Mittelmeer" (de)= "Akdeniz" (tr). All three are different.
Same with others:
, whereas Silber = Silver = Gümüs
Does anyone know the natural predators of the sea gully? Not that I'm going to sic one on these obnoxious critters, just good to know.
Does anyone have information on the average size of the common sea gully, in terms of wingspan?
I heard that the term seagully does not exist, does anyone know if that is true thank you.
Someone at my work said there was no such bird as a seagull, that they were just gulls. I guess it has been the Ring-billed gull which i think of as a seagull. What is wrong with having a common name for a common bird. I live far from any sea in Colorado and see them all the time in fields and parking lots. And what about Jonathan Livingston Seagull? Jonathan Livingston Gull just doesn't sound right. Flight Risk ( talk) 03:46, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
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)
Would seagulls eat a dead swan or other large bird? thanks for your help !
The gulls in Seattle eat everything. Once I seen a gull swoop down to the city street and swallow whole a chicken leg bone a human had dropped. Then it looked at me and made an embarrassed gesture before it flew. Once I fed them some jalepeno potato chips and the gull started to pant, just like a human. Perhaps they ultimately prefer fresh Salmon carcus over everything
In iceland they hang around Macdondals and eat leftovers hambugers
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)Kunz506
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)
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)
does a gull need fresh water or can it live on salt/brackish water 69.115.99.240 22:15, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Not all gulls are seagulls, as the first paragraph of this article suggests. For example, the black-headed gull lives mainly inland around lakes and rivers. The RSPB's description of them says "It is most definitely not a 'seagull' and is found commonly almost anywhere inland." ( https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/black-headed-gull/) — Preceding unsigned comment added by IADavidson ( talk • contribs) 15:10, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Have these been hunted as a food source? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.12.187.199 ( talk) 23:51, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
Is "mew" related to "murre", a slightly different type of sea bird? -- Richardson mcphillips ( talk) 15:20, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
thanks. -- Richardson mcphillips ( talk) 16:08, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
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)
109.176.202.47, you can sign your comments automatically using four tildes. I can't see "specie" in the existing text. I removed the random insertion about the ring-billed gull. It's not necessary to have the lead fully referenced, since it's supposed to be a summary of the main text. No one has undertaken the arduous task of bringing this to WP:GA or WP:FA standard, so the writing is bound to be patchy. There is a bird discussion page here Jimfbleak ( talk) 06:24, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
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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)
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)
I removed {{ type-locality-needed}} as a heads up, since families like Laridae don't have type localities. Umimmak ( talk) 18:10, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
That was quick! Macboff ( talk) 12:20, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
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)
L 67.3.31.114 ( talk) 19:03, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
Gull 139.5.249.8 ( talk) 04:45, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
Do they seem thos cloud guys be facial recogs of top old guys George Washington fac recog polehinke booboo
say be bold move to use him near code know studyin
B guys P H E ton e in sky guy id L A keep n line w andrew afb K maybe refernc to kkk 74.134.8.178 ( talk) 13:35, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
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I compared Mediterranean gully with other Wiki language pages and this seem pretty messed up:
, whereas "Mediterranean" (en)= "Mittelmeer" (de)= "Akdeniz" (tr). All three are different.
Same with others:
, whereas Silber = Silver = Gümüs
Does anyone know the natural predators of the sea gully? Not that I'm going to sic one on these obnoxious critters, just good to know.
Does anyone have information on the average size of the common sea gully, in terms of wingspan?
I heard that the term seagully does not exist, does anyone know if that is true thank you.
Someone at my work said there was no such bird as a seagull, that they were just gulls. I guess it has been the Ring-billed gull which i think of as a seagull. What is wrong with having a common name for a common bird. I live far from any sea in Colorado and see them all the time in fields and parking lots. And what about Jonathan Livingston Seagull? Jonathan Livingston Gull just doesn't sound right. Flight Risk ( talk) 03:46, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
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)
Would seagulls eat a dead swan or other large bird? thanks for your help !
The gulls in Seattle eat everything. Once I seen a gull swoop down to the city street and swallow whole a chicken leg bone a human had dropped. Then it looked at me and made an embarrassed gesture before it flew. Once I fed them some jalepeno potato chips and the gull started to pant, just like a human. Perhaps they ultimately prefer fresh Salmon carcus over everything
In iceland they hang around Macdondals and eat leftovers hambugers
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)Kunz506
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)
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)
does a gull need fresh water or can it live on salt/brackish water 69.115.99.240 22:15, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
Not all gulls are seagulls, as the first paragraph of this article suggests. For example, the black-headed gull lives mainly inland around lakes and rivers. The RSPB's description of them says "It is most definitely not a 'seagull' and is found commonly almost anywhere inland." ( https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/black-headed-gull/) — Preceding unsigned comment added by IADavidson ( talk • contribs) 15:10, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Have these been hunted as a food source? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.12.187.199 ( talk) 23:51, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
Is "mew" related to "murre", a slightly different type of sea bird? -- Richardson mcphillips ( talk) 15:20, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
thanks. -- Richardson mcphillips ( talk) 16:08, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
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)
109.176.202.47, you can sign your comments automatically using four tildes. I can't see "specie" in the existing text. I removed the random insertion about the ring-billed gull. It's not necessary to have the lead fully referenced, since it's supposed to be a summary of the main text. No one has undertaken the arduous task of bringing this to WP:GA or WP:FA standard, so the writing is bound to be patchy. There is a bird discussion page here Jimfbleak ( talk) 06:24, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
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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)
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)
I removed {{ type-locality-needed}} as a heads up, since families like Laridae don't have type localities. Umimmak ( talk) 18:10, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
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)
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)
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)
That was quick! Macboff ( talk) 12:20, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
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)
L 67.3.31.114 ( talk) 19:03, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
Gull 139.5.249.8 ( talk) 04:45, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
Do they seem thos cloud guys be facial recogs of top old guys George Washington fac recog polehinke booboo
say be bold move to use him near code know studyin
B guys P H E ton e in sky guy id L A keep n line w andrew afb K maybe refernc to kkk 74.134.8.178 ( talk) 13:35, 12 December 2023 (UTC)