A very random question about gulls

[Quacking Pigeon]

Hello. Is it possible to keep silver gulls as pets? But anyways who would want a chip stealing bird?

Also here's a photo of a silver gull:



And feel free to share stories about sea gulls.

 

[sourland]

Chip stealing ? Those are the pikers. Last year while at the beach a larger gull swooped over my wife's shoulder from the back and stole a quarter of a sub sandwich.

 

[Chickassan]

If you feed anything on a routine basis technically you can claim it as a pet. I'm doing it with crows, no idea why and i'll probably regret it later.

 

[Zinjifrah]

Hello. Is it possible to keep silver gulls as pets? But anyways who would want a chip stealing bird?

Also here's a photo of a silver gull:

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And feel free to share stories about sea gulls.

Can you? Maybe... Would you want to...? I've had to dissect sea birds to extract their stomachs for preservation and study of the contents. I can tell you without any question, that NOTHING stinks worse than a sea bird. Rotten fish. Everything on the ocean that dies and decays, everything dead that washes up on the beach, gulls love. Albatross as well - the ones I was given for dissection (Research vessel, Federal, not private study) were mainly albatross that had died of 'natural' causes. Aka, you just THOUGHT having a finch fly into your picture window and break its neck was catastrophic. Wait until it's a mature albatross that flies into the bridge windows of a ship - or the broad side of it. They're not... the smartest birds in the world.

 

[drumstick diva]

Sour, last year? and this is your first time telling usDid Princess eat the rest of the sandwich - I wouldn't have.

 

[BY Bob]

I thought the one that stole the Dorito from my wife's hand AS IT WAS HEADED TO HER MOUTH was the winner. She almost bit the gull!

Sub sandwich is a winner! Wow.