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The dangers of (British) gulls..

To: 'Carl Clifford' <>, 'Dave Torr' <>
Subject: The dangers of (British) gulls..
From: Tony Russell <>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 23:52:35 +0000
Oh yeah ? Big macs and chiko rolls.

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Carl Clifford
Sent: Sunday, 2 August 2015 10:46 AM
To: Dave Torr
Cc: birding-aus
Subject: The dangers of (British) gulls..

They ate a natural, healthy diet, just as we did.


> On 2 Aug 2015, at 10:57 am, Dave Torr <> wrote:
> 
> I wonder what gulls did before the advent of fast food shops?
> 
>> On 2 August 2015 at 10:49, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
>> I sent a report on that gull misbehaviour to a birder friend in Cornwall. 
>> His reply was, that if all those f****g tourists didn't go around dropping 
>> the remnants of their fish & chips and pasties everywhere, and even feeding 
>> the buggers, there would not be a problem. It seems that it is a human 
>> caused problem. Also, my chum says, ¾ of the stories are bunk.
>> 
>> Carl Clifford
>> 
>> 
>> > On 2 Aug 2015, at 8:48 am, Dave Torr <> wrote:
>> >
>> > From the "World Wide Words" newsletter:
>> >
>> > Reports in British newspapers these past few days have featured the 
>> > menace from seagulls, particularly in Cornwall. Earlier this month 
>> > a dog was killed 
>> > <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-33534181>
>> > by a seagull in that county and a tortoise died 
>> > <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-33547126> after 
>> > being flipped over and pecked to death. The birds are brazen in 
>> > grabbing food from visitors and in doing so have caused injuries. 
>> > Young people have taken advantage by inventing a game called *gull 
>> > running*. It’s said to have started in Whitby but has since spread 
>> > to other seaside towns. One person holds food above their head — 
>> > usually fish and chips — and runs a set course. The winner is 
>> > whoever can run the furthest without a seagull grabbing the food.
>> >
>> > One correspondent to my newspaper was less concerned about the 
>> > physical injuries the birds can cause than about the purity of 
>> > language. There are no such things as seagulls, he argued. In the 
>> > UK there are herring, great black-backed, lesser black-backed, 
>> > black-headed and common gulls and the kittiwake, but something 
>> > called a seagull doesn’t exist. A touch pedantic, perhaps? We may 
>> > be sure it won’t change his view to be told that English has had *seagull* 
>> > as a popular collective term since medieval times.
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