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Have Seagulls moved from the dumps to the farms?

  • 28-01-2008 12:11pm
    #1
    Run_to_da_hills
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    With the closure of many landfills in recent years have seagulls now moved from our dumps to the farmyard? Voegel11.jpg


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  • #2
    Kess73
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    Is that Not a type of African Heron in the pic?

    Looks a lot like a Cattle Egret with it's head feathers raised.

    Although they are in Aisa and Oz also.


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    magicbastarder
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    they're cattle egrets, not gulls:

    http://www.limerickleader.ie/3419/Egret-to-please-estuary-birdwatchers.3680881.jp


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    Alun
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    they're cattle egrets, not gulls:

    http://www.limerickleader.ie/3419/Egret-to-please-estuary-birdwatchers.3680881.jp

    The URL to the picture is

    http://www.bushtrucker.ch/Parks%20Kenia/Naivasha/Voegel11.jpg

    So I don't somehow think it was taken anywhere in Ireland, somehow :) Altogether a rather strange picture to accompany a query regarding seagulls, methinks.


  • #5
    Roen
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    Wish we had exotic 'seagulls' like that here. I'll make do with Little Egrets for the time being.

    Not sure as to the OP's question though. The land fill here has been closed for some time and I still see gulls all over it. I imagine they would have moved on pretty quickly when the food supply dried up. Then again maybe the corpo adds loads of worms to aerate the soils and they're going for those...although I'm not even sure if gulls eat worms.


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    Halfdog
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    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    With the closure of many landfills in recent years have seagulls now moved from our dumps to the farmyard? Voegel11.jpg
    They look more to me like ducks than seagulls! :)


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  • #7
    Alun
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    Roen wrote: »
    Not sure as to the OP's question though. The land fill here has been closed for some time and I still see gulls all over it. I imagine they would have moved on pretty quickly when the food supply dried up. Then again maybe the corpo adds loads of worms to aerate the soils and they're going for those...although I'm not even sure if gulls eat worms.
    I don't know about gulls, but I frequently see quite large flocks of waders such as oystercatchers on the golf course just before you come into Bray on the Dart. They seem quite happy eating what I assume are worms rather than their normal prey.


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