SHREWD GULLS
NEW SOURCES OF FOOD. Black-backed gulls, which learned long ago that rainy days brought feasts of worms for them on green fields, have found new sources of food lin Wellington. Cruising over the city i they have noticed that members of | staffs of shops and offices. who had ; their lunch on flat roofs, loft scraps lof their lunch which (lie birds enjoyed. In some cases the gulls do not wait till the folk have finished their meal. They call early in the sure belief that the visit will not be in vain. They also alight in the backyards of some of the houses of the Terrace, whore they know that friends will have some tit-bits for them. This kind of foraging is not yet done in Wellington by the smaller redbilled gull, which usually has less fear of humanity than the black-back has. On the wharves the red-bill is an expert at stealing bait from men and boys who throw out lines for Kahnwai or other fish. It is amusing to see an unsuspecting fisherman reach, out a hand for a piece of vanished bait which ho knew lie had put just behind the place of his sitting.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1939, Page 6
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200SHREWD GULLS Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1939, Page 6
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