how do seagull survive?

[abby_ghaile]

what is a seagull?how do it survive?

[Donkey]

what a wierd question ! its a bird by the way

[lobster]

there's no such bird as a seagull. don't no where the name came from but it refers to a collective of sea birds the most common in UK being the kitty wake. they live on cliffs and tall structures eating small fish, other birds eggs and scavenging my chips at the seaside. tho your not supposed to feed them because they forget how to hunt and starve in the winter when there's fewer tourists.

[smudge]

Hang on Donkey! What country are you from abby_ghaile? Perhaps you call these 'birds' something else.

[Donkey]

smudge.. english please ?

[smudge]

I always use a capital 'E' when writing English. Anyway, I was only trying to give abby_ghaile a chance Donkey. If she lives in another country, she may have just heard of the word 'seagull'. I think every person in England would have known what they are, even if they didn't know how they survive. O.K.

[Wisebird]

Abby-ghaile. Like Smudge I think you may not be English or that English is not your first language. Do you mean by asking 'how do it survive', 'what does it live on'. Lobster has given you a really good answer.

[New Forester]

Seagulls are birds... Yes there is such a thing, though more properly just called gulls. It's a family of birds, with dozens of species world-wide, several in UK. Sadly, kittiwake is not the commonest, but is restricted to certain cliff-nesting sites, spending the rest of the time at sea. The commonest is probably the black-headed gull, with brown hood and white flash on the wing-edges. Next the herring gull, with pale grey wings and yellow and orange beak. Both often found far from the sea, & often eat human rubbish from tips etc. Several others, some rare -- great & lesser black-back, little, Mediterranean etc. Otherwise food is fish, carrion and even live prey such as birds and rabbits.

[lard]

Here in Bournemouth they are mainly herring gulls and they mostly eat chips.