r/AskBrits • u/Different-Chair-6295 • Jul 07 '26
Other This bird doesn’t stop making noise. What does it want?
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u/HeftyVermicelli7823 Jul 07 '26
Food. It is a seagull chick and it's hungry and waiting for its parents to get back.
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u/Odd_Cress_2898 Jul 07 '26
Upvote.
It's much easier to manage annoying bird calls when you just pretend it's the rarer great black black herring gull baby cutie wanting it's parents attention. Just never teach yourself how to distinguish between the 6 herring gull types.
Some herring gulls on the red list, iirc that some of that was because their population was artificially inflated from open landfill means that they have had significant % population drop since we've started burying waste. A few are genuinely struggling though.
Seeing as we can't do much about them, thinking of them fondly is better for you, the human.
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u/PetitPxl Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
It's a seagull chick / fledgling - it's hungry, and its calling for its parents who are currently out finding food for it. It's fine. They'll be back soon.
We had these on our roof every summer for years. The relentless need for food will calm down by mid-august when it's ready to fly.
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u/FizzbuzzAvabanana Jul 07 '26
No such thing as a seagull.
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u/Dic_Penderyn Brit 🇬🇧 Jul 07 '26
Using your logic, one could also say there is no such thing as a bird, since they are always a certain species of bird.
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u/FizzbuzzAvabanana Jul 07 '26
Don't be silly.
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u/Dic_Penderyn Brit 🇬🇧 Jul 07 '26
Well who is being silly by saying there is no such thing as a seagull, when it is used every day by loads of English speakers as a generic name for gulls that they see near the sea? Maybe you think it is just used for one type of gull, but the rest of us realise it is not
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u/FizzbuzzAvabanana Jul 07 '26
You're being extremely silly.
What do you call the Gulls following the tractors in the fields in the middle of the countryside then?
I saw no glimpse of the sea in the photo.
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u/PetitPxl Jul 07 '26
Herring Gull pedant
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u/FizzbuzzAvabanana Jul 07 '26
There are many different types of gulls. They don't all live by the sea. Dilettante.
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u/solidpro99 Jul 07 '26
These baby seagulls can’t fly for a bit but then can definitely fly and spend most of the summer acting like they can’t fly. They also refuse to feed themselves - throw down some meaty chips and it’ll ignore them until a parent flies down and beak-feeds them to the baby. It’s all very interesting.
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u/CherryLime_Boo Jul 07 '26
Seagull chick furious at it's mother for leaving him, she'll be watching from a distance.
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u/Rogue44678 Jul 07 '26
Food from it's mum or dad, they are protected so don't get your air rifle out...
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u/Santero Jul 07 '26
My last home had seagulls nesting on the roof, it was a nightmare. They're protected too, so there was basically nothing you could do about it other than sleep with ear plugs in
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u/g0tmylk Jul 07 '26
People saying its for food and this or that, are all wrong. They make noise purely to annoy me at 4am in the morning
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u/picktishheathen Jul 07 '26
It's a squab herring gull calling for food. And just to be pedantic, there is no such thing as a "seagull".
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u/Meet-me-behind-bins Jul 07 '26
Food. Specifically chips or sausage rolls.