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Together they can make the combined-arms-gulls.

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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used to study animal management and there was a lecturer who wrote his uni thesis on "seagulls" and any time he heard someone call them seagulls he'd shout down the hallway "They're herring gulls!"

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Seagulls are not just herring gulls though. The term is used for any gulls people see near the sea. In the UK that's herring, great black backed & and lesser black backed, black headed, common, and kittiwakes.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    A birdwatching friend of mine has decided that if he ever discovers a new species, he's naming it "seagull" regardless of where he finds it or what it looks like just to piss off all the ornithologists.

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