I have actually sat and watched a gull for over an hour (while taking a break from sea kayaking up in BC) as it struggled with a sea star of roughly the same size. It takes a while, but they will get it down. I've come across a number of gulls since with a sea star in a similar predicament, but they all seem able to work it down. Cool pic Dea!
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Brett A. Wolfe
Seattle, WA
m_lincolnii at yahoo.com

--- On Wed, 11/12/08, birdmandea at aol.com <birdmandea at aol.com> wrote:

From: birdmandea at aol.com <birdmandea at aol.com>
Subject: [Tweeters] Gull with starfish
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 5:07 PM


Greetings.
??? Over the past weekend we went to Vancouver B.C. Bird wise nothing very notable. I did come across a Gull that had caught a starfish too large to swallow. I have seen this once before in person and a couple photos over the years. I guess my question to the group is, could this gull dislodge this starfish by it's self or is this the end of both of them?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25348030 at N07/3025537622/

Good birding, take care
Dea
Steilacoom WA






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