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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago
Chelmsford |
Reports that seagulls are becoming urban by nesting on buildings instead of cliffs and bringing a big threat of birdflu to humans because they have evolved to have no fear of humans and contact with them. On top of this councils are being prevented from culling the gulls. Experts say they could be as dangerous as bats in the sense that they may be the source of new strains of the disease. Should we be worried? |
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No Tom. It's pigeons we should be observant about, especially with the potential cross over to back garden poultry.
Add the rats and there's a whole hodgepodge of disease to be had
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"The last two years suggest humans spread more diseases.
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So, so much.
A bat virus that existed for decades until humans got hold of it, and boom, all over the world.
Filthy creatures, these homo sapiens. |
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"Reports that seagulls are becoming urban by nesting on buildings instead of cliffs and bringing a big threat of birdflu to humans because they have evolved to have no fear of humans and contact with them. On top of this councils are being prevented from culling the gulls. Experts say they could be as dangerous as bats in the sense that they may be the source of new strains of the disease. Should we be worried?"
Haven't gulls always been urban residents?
They'll nest anywhere there's easy food and shelter 
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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago
Chelmsford |
No. They are called seagulls for a reason. They used to live by the sea but increasingly spreading inland. One theory is overfishing. They used to follow trawlers and scavenge on the scraps. As the trawlers go further and further our the seagulls wings get tired. Also these big industrial trawlers waste very little. Where once a trawlerman would gut the fish then throw the waste overboard for the seagulls. This has changed. Little is wasted on these big ships. Not even the guts .. |
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You will find the seagulls were here before the houses were built. They are partial to a pied-a-terre near the local refuse sites though, possibly spreading back disease we have dumped?
Beginning to wonder if op is speciesist  |
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Really no, they are not called "sea"gulls. People call them that colloquially. You mean Herring gulls.
"No. They are called seagulls for a reason. They used to live by the sea but increasingly spreading inland. One theory is overfishing. They used to follow trawlers and scavenge on the scraps. As the trawlers go further and further our the seagulls wings get tired. Also these big industrial trawlers waste very little. Where once a trawlerman would gut the fish then throw the waste overboard for the seagulls. This has changed. Little is wasted on these big ships. Not even the guts .."
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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago
Chelmsford |
"You will find the seagulls were here before the houses were built. They are partial to a pied-a-terre near the local refuse sites though, possibly spreading back disease we have dumped?
Beginning to wonder if op is speciesist "
Tom no spciesist. He simply does not like creepy crawlies and poisonous snakes and spiders and one or two others. It is not only some animals tho. He does not like walnuts |
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By *ob rodMan
over a year ago
lancaster |
Living on the coast a few of our buildings have them on them
The bird shit is toxic I think people would be shocked if they saw what they produce when there’s a few of them we’ve had to get specialists in to clean it
And it leaves damage behind
Also they are extremely viscous they nest on the roof of our building and attack you in car park whilst people think it’s funny they proper go for you and have drawn blood a few times |
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"Can we train the cats to kill them and to leave the cyclists alone?
That's a good idea, but as long as they leave some alive to eat all the walnuts "
Most cats seem to relish showing off their walnuts. And their walnuts would be all that was left if they went after the average herring gull. Evil buggers (Op™) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Don't eat the seagulls Tom. Then Yiu will be okay.
Should be safe if they are piping hot throughout
Are you sure? Maybe the scientists in charge of food safety are insufficiently regulated"
Tom should get on to that! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Christ almighty people would never leave the house if they listened to this rubbish whats the point in living if you cant feel alive"
Whats the point of feeling alive if it kills you? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Christ almighty people would never leave the house if they listened to this rubbish whats the point in living if you cant feel alive
Whats the point of feeling alive if it kills you?"
better to have fought to live than to have lingered and just existed in the end death will catch you either way |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Christ almighty people would never leave the house if they listened to this rubbish whats the point in living if you cant feel alive
Whats the point of feeling alive if it kills you?better to have fought to live than to have lingered and just existed in the end death will catch you either way"
But seagulls though .... |
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