Nature, red in beak and webbed foot.

[urbpan]

Photos of bird on bird violence

This occurred in the very urban location of Post Office Square.

Comments

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

holy fuck!!

this has been a tough winter but not THAT tough. christ.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

He did look delicious...

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

maybe if you grilled him.

[deathling.livejournal.com]

Damn, wonder what made those gulls go apeshit?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

One of them saw a vulnerability, or for some other reason got it in its head to kill the robin. Then it became "MINE!"

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

i have seen a "murder of crows" assault a squirrel, knocking it out of a tree, pinned it to the ground, and then they mobbed, and turned it into furry sushi morsels. kinda ... creepy.

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[meryddian.livejournal.com]

Saw this article today and thought of you. :)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/science/24armo.html

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

You naughty thing, you were thinking of my huge elaborate antlers!

[mizdarkgirl.livejournal.com]

I found this video too...
http://www.shadoz.com/video/160462/bird-eat-bird

I knew they were carnivores (shellfish) but didn't realize they would go after another bird! I knew crows did but I had no idea that gulls would eat smaller birds too.

[tsunami-ryuu.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's Herring Gulls for you. I did some field work on them last summer, and I'm not particularly surprised that they'd take a songbird when given the chance. The Great Black-backed Gulls frequently took eider chicks and I saw both Herring Gulls and Great Black-backed Gulls going after muskrats (and sometimes eating them).

[teratologist.livejournal.com]

Now that's some motherfucking predation.

[aemiis-zoo.livejournal.com]

Gulls are such dickholes!