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You’ll never hear a seasoned birder using the term “seagull.” I, myself, have used the treasonous term more than once around a group of birders and been quickly corrected; “There’s no such thing as a ...

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“So it seems that gulls pay attention to the way we say things, which we don’t think has been seen before in any wild species,” a researcher said. The Associated Press is an independent, ...

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Sweet talk won't get you far if you want to scare off a seagull trying to snatch your food. Try shouting. Researchers set out to find if a man's voice was enough to deter bandit gulls from their ...

It’s happened to most beachgoers. You sit on a towel and unwrap your sandwich, prepared to savor a waterfront lunch with your feet in the sand. But then you look up, and you see them—seagulls ...

Overall, 61 gulls in nine seaside towns took part in the experiment, and one stimulus clearly made them take flight within seconds: Shouting. Speaking in a normal voice made gulls more cautious and ...