Climate change may be turning Gulls into Cannibals

Kitsap Sun ^ | 07/23/2016 | Tristan Baurick

[Lion Den Dan]

This “expert,” has not been watching gulls very long. They are a vicious, scavenging carnivore that will take their protein as they find it.

[ryderann]

70 years ago, I watched while a sick/old/wounded gull was pecked to death by the rest of the flock. This is what they do...no matter if it’s global warming or global cooling.

[moovova]

WWJLSD?

(What would Jonathan Living Seagull do?)

[Glad2bnuts]

I watched a murder of crows torturing a robin once, but it was within the margin of error for AGW. I am sure it was in 2012 plus or minus 30 years or thereabouts. Although I do not have the data set or the stratospheric temperature graph for the day, it was a hot day. I know that affirmatively since the robin had shed much of his feathers, and its skin seem to be damaged by UV rays.

[Rockingham]

A scientifically unsanctioned ocean fertilization project in 2012 put 100 tons of iron sulphate into the water off the west coast of Canada. This is widely credited with increasing salmon runs and other fish stocks. ith the dose of fertilizer having run its course and not been repeated, there now seems to be a die off in the population of predator seagulls.

[Glad2bnuts]

So “the grass” got greener and grew taller, didn’t it kill the moss though?

[TXnMA]

Of course, the behavior change couldn't possibly be reaction to his own, repeated disruptive invasions of their nesting space -- and due to his scent left on chicks by his manhandling of them...