Birding!

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I think this is a trick that gulls have learned, especially in high tourist volume settings. At Disney World, my daughter was a victim. We had purchased our meal and settled in at an outside table when the gulls came swooping in. They would unload on the diners, then when the people jumped up and scattered with shrieks and screams, the gulls would do a quick aerial U-turn and dive in amidst the confusion to grab your food. Made me mad as can be, given the high price of food at amusement parks, but I had to admire their ingenuity and boldness.

Oh yes, they're cunning indeed. I don't believe that gulls have heard of the term "bird brained', because stupid, they are certainly not.

For cunning and deception, in my opinion, they're on a par with those legendary monkeys in Gibraltar when it comes to scamming innocent passers by for food, lol.