@sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social
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May 05, 2026
Sarah Dal
@sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social
Seabirder in north east England, working to improve the lot of our coastal birds. Manages a small but extremely important seabird island. Also: #birds #birding #nature #drones #uav #GIS #lgbtqi #Northumberland #Hiking #teamgull #seabirds searchable
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I love it when you find a paper that precisely answers a question we were thinking about today - how much like a natural egg does a dummy egg have to look like so the gull will accept it?
Answer - they'll even accept a bright red cube if it's approximately egg size, which I can vouch for, having seen Herring gulls incubating vaguely spherical rocks, golf balls, and on one occasion, a head from a Barbie doll
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8599063/
#Gulls #Ornithology
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@ryanhodnett@mastodon.world
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Apr 28, 2026
Ryan Hodnett
@ryanhodnett@mastodon.world
Creative Commons Photographer Citizen Science Naturalist All of my photos are published under a CC BY-SA license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ #Insects #Plants #Birds #Spiders #Fungi #Animals #Nature #Landscape #Photography #CreativeCommons #Photographer #CitizenScience #Naturalist #WikimediaCommons #iNaturalist #Fedi22 #NoTagsPub
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Common Gulls (Larus canus)
#Gulls #Laridae #BirdsOfMastodon #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Birds #Bird #BabyBirds #BabyBird #BabyAnimal #BabyAnimals #Gull #BirdPhotography #Animal #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photo #Photography
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