The Uncommon Flying Seagull
A flying Seagull is a thing of pure beauty.
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Seagulls on the beach are common. You cannot avoid them; they are everywhere. However, despite them being everywhere, if you stop and look, you will see that the Seagull is a fascinating bird to watch, particularly in flight.
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The seagull flying into the sunrise shows how elegantly the bird commands the art of flight. The Seagull shows the miracle of flight with its effortless ability to float in the air.
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The seagull approaching a landing on the sands highlights the spread and angle of the wings and the turning of the tail. The gull's aerodynamics and the positioning of its wings and tail allow it to circle in for the landing. This picture also shows the gull’s beak slightly open, as if it were saying, “I’ve got this.”
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Seagulls are clowns in the air. As this one flies, it looks down at the beach. The look on the face makes you wonder if this gull lost something. Flying and searching, the gull says, “I think I lost something.” As this gull looks for its lost treasure, his head is angled, and he looks down; you can see one of his feet, making him a clown in the sky.
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Watching gulls in flight gives you an insight into how birds are masters of the sky. Each movement shows how the fight is controlled by body position, wing position, foot position, angling of the bird’s tail, and the attentive look on a bird’s face as it performs the fascinating miracle of flight. Each time the gull in flight is captured, slight differences show the intricacies of navigating the air.
Flight shows there is nothing ordinary about the Seagull.
Amazing Facts About the Seagull [from OneKindPlanet]
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."
Next time you are at the beach just stop, look and experience the very uncommon seagull do “their thing.”