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Pet Forum / Birds / Birds / January 2005Herring gull staring at my buderigars...
Whilst on the subject of budgies, I thought I'd mention this too. I have an outside aviary containing ten budgies. A couple of days ago, I noticed a lone herring gull stood against the wire staring intently at my birds. I banged on the window and it flew away. Any idea what it might have been after? Do you think that it was planning to make a meal of my budgies, or was it just curious about the brightly coloured birds inside? The herring gull probably was curious and intrigued wondering what they were. BLL > Whilst on the subject of budgies, I thought I'd mention this too. > I have an outside aviary containing ten budgies. A couple of days ago, [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > planning to make a meal of my budgies, or was it just curious about > the brightly coloured birds inside? Gulls are consummate opportunists. They will make a meal out of anything that presents itself. Our birding group on Lake Michigan has seen Herring Gulls attack and eat small ducks (Bufflehead) as well as passerines (Juncos, etc.). I'm confident the gull was looking at your budgies not because he thought they were pretty, but because he thought they looked like a potential meal. Randy >Do you think that it was planning to make a meal of my budgies, or was it just curious about the brightly coloured birds inside? The gull probably figured that your budgies were nestlings of some species of shorebird and wanted to make a meal of them... I was just reading an article in North American Birds by Reader's Digest the other day. That particular book is less scientific about birds and more into anecdotes about how they behave... Gulls prey upon nestlings and also greedily devour unattended eggs... One of the gull articles described how gulls would notice the disturbance among shorebirds when humans would arrive to collect eggs in the last century... When the parent birds were flushed from their nests, the gulls flew around, breaking as many eggs as possible, since they seemed to know that humans wouldn't take the broken eggs... Then, when the egg collectors left, the gulls came back and feasted on the broken eggs... Wow! I didn't know that. Thanks for the information. BLL > Wow! I didn't know that. Thanks for the information. > > BLL Which means your first response was based on nothing. Why do you hand out information when you know nothing about the subject? People generally prefer information based on actual knowledge of the subject matter rather than the stuff you pull out of your a.s. ZQ >> Wow! I didn't know that. Thanks for the information. >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > ZQ Why don't you try pulling your head out of your a.s jynx. >>Do you think that it was planning to make a meal of my budgies, or was > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > Then, when the egg collectors left, the gulls came back and feasted on > the broken eggs... That is so interesting. Birds don't have birdbrains. I know that because my Jardine talks and practices talking. I have seen Herring gulls staring at my Goffins 'too also. Since they will eat most anything that does not eat them first, I assume they are sizing up a meal. john > Whilst on the subject of budgies, I thought I'd mention this too. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > planning to make a meal of my budgies, or was it just curious about > the brightly coloured birds inside? |
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