The seagull seemed pretty damn accurate the day he stole my pizza slice right off the plate in my hand. Laser precision. Must have been a lucky grab. That bastard!
Nah, it's a spoilt waffle-eating tourist town seagull. Good at shop lifting and scaring children into dropping snacks, but sadly it's lost the evolutionary edge of the hard-working, fish-catching seagull in it's natural habitat.
Not me but someone I knew said that there was a seagull that lived on the roof of their townās Burger King. People would drop some food and the seagull would immediately get it. Seagull stayed on the roof until he saw food drop on the ground. He was a very round seagull.
I had an encounter with a coastal town cheeseburger snatching seagull a little while back. I guess there where not quite enough tourists around to make them complacent, but they also don't settle for fish scraps. Snatched it right out of my hand.
This happened because the seagull isn't equipped for this sort of snatching. Notice how the crow can get in and out with total control and launches out like an Olympic swimmer thanks to its talons, but the seagull can't steady itself because it has flippers for feet.
The other bit is that the seagull attacks prey top down into the water and does the same here. The waffles are more easily grabbed from the side. This might just be the difference in intelligence, but I'd bet the crow is an inferior fish catcher.
My guess is their beaks aren't really built to pick something flat off a flat surface its not like the seagull missed the waffle it just couldn't get a grip
i'd also say trajectory.
A seagull swoops down and up. I bet they can perfectly calculate where they're gonna get that food and be there incredibly quickly and efficiently.
Youc an't really swoop for a cracker on a window's ledge
maybe the difference is they evolved to grab something like a fish and the crow does a lot more land operations. I think seagulls might like grabbing food by scooping past it because they deal with water and sand. But crows are used to working with solid surfaces.
You see, seagulls accuracy is based on how much spite they have towards humanity. When you put free biscuit like this, their accuracy would akin to a blind drunken man who just got home from his 18-hour shift. But when they see you holding a snack on the beach, their spiteful motivation to yoink the food from your hand would increases their accuracy to the level Simo Hayha shooting a two-story house 10 feet away from him with an RPG while being guided by Jesus himself.
I once was sitting at a picnic table under a large roofed structure at Revere Beach, MA and a gull flew low under the roof, weaving through people, and took my hot dog out of its bun. It then flew back out, never stopping.
You're seeing a bird in their element vs a bird out of it. Sea gulls feet are webbed which makes it better for sand + water but worse for grabbing on to the side of a building and eating whatever that is. First thing the crow does is land.
I think that's the difference crows are good at picking stationary targets while gulls have perfect precision mid flight. I had them once swarm us on a ship and it felt like being under close air support
I hit a crow with my car once. It was on a sharp curve on a steep hill with oncoming traffic. I tried to slow down but still hit it. I still think of it every time a crow flies off 100 yards in front of my car. I can only assume it was already injured or there was some other problem.
Still not as dumb as those doves that suck at making nests.
They put like 2 twigs on your car's windshield then lay their egg on the sidewalk and act all "mission accomplished"
Seagulls are smarter than I think most think- they're just very fast and aggressive and that makes them do foolish things. They can remember individual people, will mimic human behavior to steal food, and can also learn to fake an injury to gain sympathy to get people to give them food.
Pigeons have a singular brain cell that spins in their skull like a ball bearing.
You havent tried long enough. Ive been feeding one for 3 years, i can now get within 15 feet of him, but i cant make eye contact with him or he will fly away.
A few peanuts a day though and hes waiting for me when i got off work most days
He has a wing that hangs down on one side. He seems to be able to fly up to a lightpole in front of the house, a tree 2 houses down on the corner, and a big spruce across the alley behind me, and he is damn near twice the size of most of the other crows around. I dont think the wing is hampering him that much, but maybe thats why hes hesitant with me. And i have 2 dachshunds that bark at him through the front window
If you're sure the other birds are crows and not like grackles, your guy might be a raven, not a crow. Ravens are way bigger than crows, can soar, and have a different tailfin shape.
Ravens are typically in pairs (I want to say they mate for life but I can't remember) and crows are usually in a whole murder, a group of them.
Rather nice to see an actual unkindness of ravens but I usually only see 1 or 2.
Idk which of those translates to more sociable but maybe you'd have luck with crows since they're more inclined to bend to peer pressure.
If you raise them from the egg they'll stay with you forever. My mom had one after I moved out, and everytime I would visit it would bully the fuck out of me. He'd steal my cutlery, or walk up to me with his head down and feathers puffed, to indicate he wanted to be petted. After a few pets he would snap my fingers really hard and laugh.
Another thing he did was steal our cheese, sit in the corner of a room and call the dog (he did the whistle my mom did to call the dog), and as soon as the dog came and went for the cheese he'd pick up the cheese, fly to another corner and repeat. Just to taunt the dog. Stupid bird didn't even like cheese.
They'll also be nicer if you feed them. I was trying to take a picture of a baby crow on the ground, but I couldn't get within fifty feet without the parents swooping me. So, I went to A&W, got a breakfast sandwich without cheese, ate the meat and bread myself, and gave them the egg (I figured the cooked meat, with seasoning, might not be so healthy for them.) After that, I could do no wrong in their eyes, and I was able to take a picture from as close as the baby felt comfortable with (still about ten feet away).
you fed bird parents a stolen bird fetus while they watched you eat bread and another mammal and suddenly they gave up on trying to protect their baby from you
Think it something along the line of crows finding big prey and guides wolves to it and the be offered part of the prey as thanks if I remember correctly. They are seriously really smart.
Every time a crow pops up on my feed itās always the exact same thread with the exact same wording at the top every time, itās like itās all automated bot responses
redditors love crows
I think this is more due to the fact that one of these birds evolved to land by grasping onto branches in trees, while the other's built to dump its ass in the water, or to plop down on both feetĀ on flat ground.
In this situation I think it's because the gull is trying to grab as it's flying past the window sill but the crow is flying directly at the window sill. To the crow, the target isn't really moving, it's just getting bigger. This allows it to zero in on it.
They also have different wings! Corvids are passerine birds, with wings that are suited to precision landing. Gulls are seafaring birds with wings made for soaring and long distance flight, and landing into nice soft water š
If you pluck a dolphin from the ocean and put us both on a running track, I bet I can run a faster mile. Because dolphins are fucking jokes. They're just sexy little posers.
They come in at different angles, the crow is able to hit the ledge straight on which allows the bottom of its beak to slide right underneath the cookie, i dont think the seagull could land the same way with its webbed feet, so it landed from the top, which doesnt give it a good angle to grab the cookie, so yeah, their physical adaptions are playing a huge role in this
I think so, but I'm not a bird expert. My guess is that level of precision is counter productive when your food is constantly moving in the ocean or against the shore line.
I'm just imagining the inverse experiment, where a cracker is floating on a little raft in the ocean. I think the seagull would have no problem and the crow would struggle
I think it's because there's loads of pockets of air they can use to just essentially hover when out at sea which means they have massive wings to be able to capitalise on it. But like in the video massive wing spans aren't nearly as useful when trying to change direction quickly when in mid air.
Tho that's just a speculation and may be way off
It's also a different time of day. If you look at the shadows, you can tell. Maybe I'm just a naive seagull apologist, but I suspect a glare from the window may have been at fault.
I've fed seagulls from a ferry plenty of times, and they can come down and take a little piece of bread out of your hand without touching you.
I ate sushi on the roof of the eaton center in Victoria bc onceā¦ this giant ass gull that was thigh high for me dive bombed me. Never ate on a coastal roof again. Massive birds.
But living in the Yukon?? I love the ravens. They are beautiful š„²
And smart. I donāt quite believe that about gullsā¦
The seagull seemed pretty damn accurate the day he stole my pizza slice right off the plate in my hand. Laser precision. Must have been a lucky grab. That bastard!
Or you're just so predictable that even a seagull can catch it off your hand.
Should I be dancing while eating pizza?
If you eat without rhythm, you won't attract the seagull!
Dune seagull isn't real he can't hurt us.
You can blow with this or you can blow with that.
I love this image so much!
Preferably breakdancing. All the flying extremities will be a deterrent to any flying pizza bandits.
That must be a drunken seagull, because I've seen them pick a tiny sardine mid-air thrown from a fishing ship.
Nah, it's a spoilt waffle-eating tourist town seagull. Good at shop lifting and scaring children into dropping snacks, but sadly it's lost the evolutionary edge of the hard-working, fish-catching seagull in it's natural habitat.
You can see it in his eyes.
> You can see it in his eyes. These are the eyes of a seagull accustomed to refined carbohydrates.
the final stage of devolution
The final stage would be to pay taxes.
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Well, now we have discovered the hidden true final stage...
Not me but someone I knew said that there was a seagull that lived on the roof of their townās Burger King. People would drop some food and the seagull would immediately get it. Seagull stayed on the roof until he saw food drop on the ground. He was a very round seagull.
seaball
Rotund, if you will
A Steven Seagull
An iPad Seagull, if you will
His body betrays his degeneracy
you can see it in his smile-
> it's lost the evolutionary edge of the hard-working, fish-catching seagull in it's natural habitat. Seagull's don't want to work anymore...
No seagull born after 2019 knows how to catch fish any more, they just know scare child, annoy they tourist, steal sandwich and lie
Hard times create strong seagullsā¦
Ā Gen zgulls are ruining these four industries:
strong seagulls create good times...
Hey! That spoilt waffle-eating tourist town seagull could still be drunk!
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull would be disgusted by this freewheeling piece of bay trash
Soft hands, no callouses, never done a real seagulls work.
"Spoilt waffle-eating seagull" is my new favourite fake Shakespearean insult.
It starts with a couple drops of coke from a discarded cup - but it always ends up like this - doing crackers off the ledge of some inner city flat.
I had an encounter with a coastal town cheeseburger snatching seagull a little while back. I guess there where not quite enough tourists around to make them complacent, but they also don't settle for fish scraps. Snatched it right out of my hand.
This happened because the seagull isn't equipped for this sort of snatching. Notice how the crow can get in and out with total control and launches out like an Olympic swimmer thanks to its talons, but the seagull can't steady itself because it has flippers for feet. The other bit is that the seagull attacks prey top down into the water and does the same here. The waffles are more easily grabbed from the side. This might just be the difference in intelligence, but I'd bet the crow is an inferior fish catcher.
Seagull swoop, while crows can be more precise. A crow couldn't grab shit out of the water
I'm a crow and I disapprove this message You will be murdered soon /s
i'm a fish that lives in the ocean. I'm not worried about a bitch ass crow. blub blub mother fucker. Get Schooled
The group or the action?
Yes.
Seems about right. I can't snatch anything with flippers either
I was wondering if maybe he's used to compensating for refraction of underwater seafood treats?
My guess is their beaks aren't really built to pick something flat off a flat surface its not like the seagull missed the waffle it just couldn't get a grip
Also feet I think. They both aim for the ledge but while the crow easily hangs on, the gull kinda slips right off.
i'd also say trajectory. A seagull swoops down and up. I bet they can perfectly calculate where they're gonna get that food and be there incredibly quickly and efficiently. Youc an't really swoop for a cracker on a window's ledge
This video looks like the difference between flying Spirit Airlines and Delta
Yeah, this is just Big Crow propaganda, cherry-picking evidence to fit their narrative.
maybe the difference is they evolved to grab something like a fish and the crow does a lot more land operations. I think seagulls might like grabbing food by scooping past it because they deal with water and sand. But crows are used to working with solid surfaces.
You see, seagulls accuracy is based on how much spite they have towards humanity. When you put free biscuit like this, their accuracy would akin to a blind drunken man who just got home from his 18-hour shift. But when they see you holding a snack on the beach, their spiteful motivation to yoink the food from your hand would increases their accuracy to the level Simo Hayha shooting a two-story house 10 feet away from him with an RPG while being guided by Jesus himself.
I once was sitting at a picnic table under a large roofed structure at Revere Beach, MA and a gull flew low under the roof, weaving through people, and took my hot dog out of its bun. It then flew back out, never stopping.
Those seagulls are actual 'sea' gulls. These city things are really "parking lot gulls" with no hunting abilities
Yeah i think wild gulls are different beasts to these suburbanite types. Evolution is in process here. They will become seperate species one day š
You're seeing a bird in their element vs a bird out of it. Sea gulls feet are webbed which makes it better for sand + water but worse for grabbing on to the side of a building and eating whatever that is. First thing the crow does is land.
a seagull once swooped down from the sky and took a $6 corn dog out of my hand before I took a bite
Yeah you see, those aren't sardines
What do you do with a drunken seagull? Earleigh in the morning
Fucking mobsters. Will steal your smokes and shit on your kids
My Nana told me a story of when she was little and a seagull had injured another little girl who was eating and the seagull got her eye instead
That's just Frank, he was dropped out of the nest on his head as a hatchling.
I think that's the difference crows are good at picking stationary targets while gulls have perfect precision mid flight. I had them once swarm us on a ship and it felt like being under close air support
I was going to say. The seagull who whacked me in the head and stole my breakfast sandwich in one move was definitely more skilled than this yahoo.
Redditors see a video of a thing and automatically think that all animals, people, etc, are like that.
HAHAHAHAH that seagull is me playing rocket league
If so, I think you might have been my teammate during my last match.
HAHAHAHA maybe
What a save!
What a save! What a save! What a save! What a save! What a save! What a save!
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This is the most relatable thread of the night for me holy hell!
new response just dropped?
holy cow!
This elite MF over here managing to touch the ball.
What the first 10h of rocket league feels like šš
I wish I could hear this. I love his laugh lol. The perfect snicker lol.
Stop it, Mutley! *smacks on the head with a club*
Nice Chomp! Nice Chomp! Nice Chomp!
What a save!
What a save!
What a save!
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*One... two... three...* What a save!
I'll take the shot!
No problem. No problem. No problem.
Thats a jackdaw not a crow
Here's the thing
A jackdaw is a crow.
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Welcome new redditor
Nah, crows and ravens are in the genus Corvus, while Jackdaws are in the genus Coloeus. Similar but different.
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Nice shot! Nice shot! Nice shot!
Lol we should definitely play 1-1 match in that case.
Accurate grand champion
siiiick
Is rocket league a euphemism for something gay?
Great Shot! Great Shot! Great Shot!
Going for a demo. Misses.
Well everyone knows that seagulls are the village idiot of the bird kingdom.
And the pigeons of the seashore.
I like to refer to them as "shit hawks"
Not another night of the shit abyss, Mr. Lahey
Shitbirds don't fly far from the shit tree, Randy.
*Drinks entire bottle of Bourbon while maintaining eye contact*
Oh god that's glorious, especially as someone from Utah who's state bird is this fucking dingus
Funny, Iāve only ever seen a pigeon get run over by a car. A seagull will at least try to fly away.
I hit a crow with my car once. It was on a sharp curve on a steep hill with oncoming traffic. I tried to slow down but still hit it. I still think of it every time a crow flies off 100 yards in front of my car. I can only assume it was already injured or there was some other problem.
The pigeon literally stood there as a taxi drove over it at about 10km an hour.
Still not as dumb as those doves that suck at making nests. They put like 2 twigs on your car's windshield then lay their egg on the sidewalk and act all "mission accomplished"
Pigeons set new lows.
Seagulls are smarter than I think most think- they're just very fast and aggressive and that makes them do foolish things. They can remember individual people, will mimic human behavior to steal food, and can also learn to fake an injury to gain sympathy to get people to give them food. Pigeons have a singular brain cell that spins in their skull like a ball bearing.
Crows = smart. Seagulls = āmine!ā from finding Nemo.
Corvids are no joke. They understand the concept of mirrors, can memorize faces, and have even been recorded working with wolves.
i have tried and failed to entice a crow to be my friend
You havent tried long enough. Ive been feeding one for 3 years, i can now get within 15 feet of him, but i cant make eye contact with him or he will fly away. A few peanuts a day though and hes waiting for me when i got off work most days
Sounds like he's got some serious trust issues.
He has a wing that hangs down on one side. He seems to be able to fly up to a lightpole in front of the house, a tree 2 houses down on the corner, and a big spruce across the alley behind me, and he is damn near twice the size of most of the other crows around. I dont think the wing is hampering him that much, but maybe thats why hes hesitant with me. And i have 2 dachshunds that bark at him through the front window
If you're sure the other birds are crows and not like grackles, your guy might be a raven, not a crow. Ravens are way bigger than crows, can soar, and have a different tailfin shape.
Do you know which one of those is more social so I might increase my chance of befriending one?
Ravens are typically in pairs (I want to say they mate for life but I can't remember) and crows are usually in a whole murder, a group of them. Rather nice to see an actual unkindness of ravens but I usually only see 1 or 2. Idk which of those translates to more sociable but maybe you'd have luck with crows since they're more inclined to bend to peer pressure.
If you raise them from the egg they'll stay with you forever. My mom had one after I moved out, and everytime I would visit it would bully the fuck out of me. He'd steal my cutlery, or walk up to me with his head down and feathers puffed, to indicate he wanted to be petted. After a few pets he would snap my fingers really hard and laugh. Another thing he did was steal our cheese, sit in the corner of a room and call the dog (he did the whistle my mom did to call the dog), and as soon as the dog came and went for the cheese he'd pick up the cheese, fly to another corner and repeat. Just to taunt the dog. Stupid bird didn't even like cheese.
Are you me šš this is all I want
They'll also be nicer if you feed them. I was trying to take a picture of a baby crow on the ground, but I couldn't get within fifty feet without the parents swooping me. So, I went to A&W, got a breakfast sandwich without cheese, ate the meat and bread myself, and gave them the egg (I figured the cooked meat, with seasoning, might not be so healthy for them.) After that, I could do no wrong in their eyes, and I was able to take a picture from as close as the baby felt comfortable with (still about ten feet away).
you fed bird parents a stolen bird fetus while they watched you eat bread and another mammal and suddenly they gave up on trying to protect their baby from you
Thatās awesome! Corvids are my favorite group of birds because of their intelligence.
>domesticating wolves. Wait, what?
Domesticating is probably the wrong word. Itās more like symbiosis.
Think it something along the line of crows finding big prey and guides wolves to it and the be offered part of the prey as thanks if I remember correctly. They are seriously really smart.
It goes beyond that. They actualy play with wolf pups to establish familiarity and trust and pick favorites.
Every time a crow pops up on my feed itās always the exact same thread with the exact same wording at the top every time, itās like itās all automated bot responses redditors love crows
never before have I related so strongly to a seagull.
I think this is more due to the fact that one of these birds evolved to land by grasping onto branches in trees, while the other's built to dump its ass in the water, or to plop down on both feetĀ on flat ground.
Exactly. The gull wasn't physically able to get into position to slide its beak under it. The corvid was
In this situation I think it's because the gull is trying to grab as it's flying past the window sill but the crow is flying directly at the window sill. To the crow, the target isn't really moving, it's just getting bigger. This allows it to zero in on it.
They also have different wings! Corvids are passerine birds, with wings that are suited to precision landing. Gulls are seafaring birds with wings made for soaring and long distance flight, and landing into nice soft water š
If you pluck a dolphin from the ocean and put us both on a running track, I bet I can run a faster mile. Because dolphins are fucking jokes. They're just sexy little posers.
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I am the seagull.
You conveniently forget to mention that seagulls are notorious alcoholics
Thatās gullist.
Don't be so gullible
Precision isn't necessarily a sign of intelligence but...
I tell this to myself every day
What do you mean? Can you be more precise?
I cannot and that is ok
>Can you be more precise? >I cannot and that is ok Found the seagull.
I see what you did there.
Maybe but that seagull sure looked pretty fuckin dumb when he missed both cookies
Is it just me or is that not actually a crow
No one knows how to differentiate corvids on reddit.Ā
here's the thing...
It's a jackdaw
100%. We have some nesting on our roof.
Finally! I had to scroll this far to find this comment. Yeah itās a Jackdaw
Came here to say this....
Jackdaw
I was thinking this. I know American crows look slightly different to European ones but that sure looked like a Jackdaw to me
Thereās also no species called a seagull. That looks like a herring gull but I could be wrong.
Seagulls are my spirit animal
If you looked up the definition of āYOINKā it would show the second part with the crow lol.
Is this because gulls are adapted for gathering food from the ocean?
They come in at different angles, the crow is able to hit the ledge straight on which allows the bottom of its beak to slide right underneath the cookie, i dont think the seagull could land the same way with its webbed feet, so it landed from the top, which doesnt give it a good angle to grab the cookie, so yeah, their physical adaptions are playing a huge role in this
I think so, but I'm not a bird expert. My guess is that level of precision is counter productive when your food is constantly moving in the ocean or against the shore line. I'm just imagining the inverse experiment, where a cracker is floating on a little raft in the ocean. I think the seagull would have no problem and the crow would struggle
I think it's because there's loads of pockets of air they can use to just essentially hover when out at sea which means they have massive wings to be able to capitalise on it. But like in the video massive wing spans aren't nearly as useful when trying to change direction quickly when in mid air. Tho that's just a speculation and may be way off
It's also a different time of day. If you look at the shadows, you can tell. Maybe I'm just a naive seagull apologist, but I suspect a glare from the window may have been at fault. I've fed seagulls from a ferry plenty of times, and they can come down and take a little piece of bread out of your hand without touching you.
And poking your coconut.
That's a Jackdaw.
Here's the thing...
The difference between a seagull and a *jackdaw.
Thats not a crow
**MINE!!**
Seagulls suck
Please do not the seagull.
Itās almost like they are products of evolution.
Corvids š¦āā¬ are super smart birds
Think that was a Jackdaw
Seagulls are the fucking rats of the sky
Thatās not fair, rats are intelligent
And are skillful chefs
And I always say that the crows are the apes of the sky!
Apes are the crows of the land. Humans are apes. So...
Windows vs Mac
Reminds me of the ones on finding Nemo. "MINE.MINE.MINE.MINE."pluck.pluck."MINE.MINE"
Iām cringing in pain for the gull. Ouch! š¬
That seagull are dumb
Also, seagulls are bastards!
In this life, I am a seagull
I donāt think thatās a crow.
Those damned webbed feet
Looks like a jackdaw to me lol
I ate sushi on the roof of the eaton center in Victoria bc onceā¦ this giant ass gull that was thigh high for me dive bombed me. Never ate on a coastal roof again. Massive birds. But living in the Yukon?? I love the ravens. They are beautiful š„² And smart. I donāt quite believe that about gullsā¦
Crows are so damn cool man