higher winds kept a lot of birds away.

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Buffet lunch … a gull eyes up a vendor’s cheese being transported by boat during the opening of the first cheese market of the season in Alkmaar, the #Netherlands.

Photograph: ANP/Shutterstock

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Research shows that painting eyes on take-out containers stops seagulls from stealing food

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/01/specieswatch-eyes-on-takeaway-boxes-stop-gulls-stealing-chips

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I wonder how long the effect lasts? Birds are quick learners. The paper (linked) does not go into great detail (other than noting days or weeks with some caveats) and the birds lean from others. But all the same interesting.

I just don't eat chips if they are around :-)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/01/specieswatch-eyes-on-takeaway-boxes-stop-gulls-stealing-chips

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.73202

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Glaucous gull youngster, in its second calendar year. One of my favorite bird/gull species. They overwinter in the north of Norway, and having them in town the past few months has been an absolute blessing.

Their Dutch name is “Grote Burgemeester” aka “large mayor”, because of their big size and big bossy personality. Definitely a fitting name if you’ve ever seen them in action, they’re tough as hell.

Als their Norwegian name is “Polarmåke”/“Polar gull”, matching their scientific name “Larus hyperboreus” (“gull of the high north”), while their English name glaucous gull refers to their color.

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Ringed-bill gull

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Ring-billed gull

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