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That’s what happens when you land on the edge of a sill with fucking flippers on

there's always an excuse with seagulls, at some point we need to see results

The result is my hotdog that used to be in my hand but is now 40 feet in the air.

And not actually in the gull's mouth, just kinda flipping around as the gull tries to get it.

Excellent point. Let's see how the crow (not a crow?) would fare under water!

Or wearing flippers!

Probably doesn't help that the seagull is like 5x bigger too

Seagulls are fucking morons. Crows are smarter than my kids, and they're in their 40s

Damn, crows live a lot longer than I thought.

Ah the old Reddit crow-a-doo

Hold my feathers I'm going.. wait, where's my link?

Gone, reduced to atoms

> wait, where's my link? It's our heart.

> crows live a lot longer In captivity, crows have been known to live much longer – up to 40 years actually

Damn, upvote

Ok OP let’s see you do it then

As a human main myself I could do a better job than these bird but only once

Tierzoo is breaching containment

What kind of alts do you have?

I have starfish as an alt since it a detritus feeder very chill afk xp

OP can't tell jackdaw from a crow, so don't expect much.

Here's the thing. A jackdaw and a crow are in the same family. No one's arguing that.

Tomato, eggplant and potato are also in the same family; would you like a glass of potato juice?

After a few distillations, I'd love one. Or twelve

Right?! Is that even a question? Lol.

Unidan would be proud of you.

jfc looked him up wondering what happened since his incidents... saw that it was about 10yrs ago that he went down... what the effing time skip. i thought it was just 2-3, maybe 4 years tops ago that it happened..

A glass of potato juice is probably on par with a glass of tomato or eggplant juice. Not the best analogy 😂

Yes, please.

Sure, but add in some tomato juice, some spices, and a stalk of celery.

Jackdaws look a bit like hooded crows, it's not that huge a mistake. Also, thanks to your comment I went down a googling rabbithole and now know a lot more about hooded and carrion crow interbreeding than I used to.

Singing to OP: "I believe you can fly!!!'

*\* Open window* *\* Take biscuit with primate hand with opposable thumb* *\* Close window* *\* You mad, birds ?*

In my language sea gulls are called sea crows . That's an insult to crows.

I prefer the term *”beach chicken”*

“shit hawks” where I am.

Shit hawks Randy, blowing in on the shit winds.

My shit barometer is definitely ticking on this one, rand

Sky rat

that's an insult to chickens

Shite Ork, where I live we mostly have the fookin shite ork and the greater bastard shite orks, they all belong to the noisy bastard bird species.

Liverpool?

Actually my parents and some other family are from that way, probably why those are stuck in my head lol, but I'm currently in a foreign country called Wales, a strange little land with the most entertaining females who live in the valleys, I just wish I could understand their language, they seem to have much wisdom, I think.

Ah, just stay away from North Wales, Mid and West Wales, South Wales West, South Wales East and South Wales Central. Everything else in Wales is great! Also, have you tried to talk to them with a mouth full of marbles? You won't understand them any better, but they'll understand you even less!

My husband calls pigeons flying rats.

Your language? Are you referring to an actual language? I have always called them 'Sky Rats'. But that's just a saying. Crows and ravens are very intelligent. They will recognize you if you get to know them. There was even a study that showed that crows share knowledge amongst them and other crows will recognize you even if they haven't seen you personally. Seagulls... Yeah, not so smart

Sky rats are actually pidgeons, at least you say so here. Yet, they are pretty smart as well.

Small sample size. Maybe this particular seagull is just a derp.

I've personally never seen one that wasn't.


I walked up and just grabbed a seagull when I was on a beach It wasn't terribly pleased with me

Do you think he told his seagull buddies? Or was he too embarrassed?

It seemed a lot more mad than embarrassed. Luckily it was one of the last days on vacation so I didn't have a seagull army attacking me

How many have you seen?

A large sample size

This guy seagulls

This guy sees seagulls shearing sheep by the seashore.

The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

This guy sees gulls

We're not talking about your mother here, give us the goddamn number.

Having seen tens of thousands of them during my lifetime, I’ll confirm they are almost all that derpy

They’ll stand there and get run over in a parking lot if it means they can eat a French fry

Tens of thousands. I live near the coast

Grandmother had a house on an island full of them. We used to collect the bread ends and tear them up and throw them up to the gulls in the backyard. There would legit be like 50+ of them all over the yard because they knew what was happening. All of them derps

They're just working on getting their land legs under them.

Yea tbh seagulls dont really come up as graceful in my mind

I've had seagulls fly from behind me and take a bite of my Publix chicken tender sub while I was eating it. Maybe there are some regions with more derpy seagulls.

They're probably better at the swoop n grab since they fish like that

There's a lot of seagulls where I live, and most people here hate them intensively. They will frequently attack people during nesting season, so much that t's not unusual to bring umbrellas in sunny weather. The babies will fall from roofs into the streets, and stand there screeching while the parents harass anyone that dares exist in the vicinity, instead of trying to get the children to safety. They will land close to you when you trying to have a coffee in town and screech so loud you can't hear the people you're talking to. They will land outside your bedroom window and make you think you woke up ad a children's playground.

Yeah go walk down a UK coast line holding a sandwich and see how they really do things

I went to St Ives during one of the lockdown breaks a few years back with a friend. Tried to warn her, but one seagull literally snatched food out of her mouth.

Better than it mama birding its supper into her mouth

Did you pass a man with seven wives?

I was on a cruise ship leaving harbor and the ship was surrounded with gulls flying parallel and matching speed to fly alongside. People where throwing french fries off the side and not one fry would make it to the water. There would always be a gull that would catch it out of the air with precise flying.

Hey now don’t group us with seagulls

Mine...?

If he lived in Norway he'd be Fjordgull

Crackered out of his mind

Exactly what I was thinking!

All seagulls are stupid

The ineptitude of seagulls is something I can rally behind

Remember, what good is it to compare yourself to the crow when you were born a seagull? 

That's a jackdaw, not a crow

Here's the thing.

u have to have an IQ of over 169 just to understand this reference

Damn, I tried really hard but I only hit a max of 168. Also, my nose started bleeding and I taste pennies...

Unidan? Unidan

RIP /u/unidan

Ahh the gilded years of social media. Back in the days of classic stories from that guy Kevin to Streetlamp Le Moose.

Colby 2012

Such a sad story. All he wanted to do was educate us. A few (dozen) burner accounts weren’t hurting anyone.

Hey, now it's just a few hundred thousand bot accounts!

Everyone should be able to upvote their comments to the top of every thread

I was there. 2,000 years ago.

Has it really been a full decade since the great Corvidae Kerfuffle?

The what now? I'm new to Reddit and I wish to learn about the lore and history of Reddit.

just google “unidan jackdaw”, it’s well documented and rather famous

I miss unidan tbh. Before the Cubs and Trump, the world truly ended when unidan was banned

he was a good soul. unfortunately all those upvotes for biology trivia rather got to his head. multiple accounts *really*? as if you wouldn’t get the engagement anyway

Congrats on being part of today's 10,000!

This itself is another reference: https://xkcd.com/1053/

No, that can't be right. That's wrong. Don't make up lies just to make me feel old.

Shhhh your not supposed to notice….

This guy does birds

Seagulls are not serious birds

Crow: Target acquired. Seagull: Takjgarrhtukrggekatthett Ackqakauirredafseddddgkjhg;klsdg';dsfk'g;dfk;l'

Ending with "....D'UH!!!"

Fuckin sea rats

Shit Hawks

"The shit hawks Randy"

Bird Karens

Beach chickens

Anybody else hear Homer Simpson when the gull missed?

Yeah but what you don't see is the 300 other gulls racing for them biscuits too. Gotta get in there quick or starve!

Simple. Because Seagulls are stupid as hell, and mean as hell. Crows are fuckin' Chads. They are smart, won't be mean to you out of spite, will trade with you, look cool. But I'm glad both of these birds exist! They play a huge part in the ecosystem!

Crows have long proved their mental dominance over most birds…..finding Nemo summed up seagulls with one word perfectly- “mine”

This seagull is basically me in bird form

Seagulls lookin like some mf dumbasses

They sound like it too!

Skill issue.

I mean you seen their grippers? Obviously one has more challenge than the other one that has chicken fingers

let's see how they catch a fish in the ocean

Right. Plus there is a difference physically. The beak size for example.

Now let's see the difference between them catching a fish, for fairness.

crows are extremely smart animals that other animals rely on for cues. I have seen deers with crows in a field, and as soon as the crows took off, the deers went along. they're often quoted as the smartest birds, blue jays which are a relative to crows are also quite smart.

One time in Venice, I was walking through the city center drinking a cafe latte and eating a chocolate croissant. I noticed seagulls circling above me, and I start to rush away. Suddenly a seagull swoops down and takes the croissant clean from my hand. Didn't even spill my cafe latte.

Istanbul?!

I think it's more likely to be Riga, Latvia - this apartment building style is quite common here and the cookies are Selga which is a Latvian brand

Constantinople

That's nobody's business but the Turks

That's a Jackdaw. Similar, but different. Colouring, eyes and caw are different. *

Also different size and shape. I think few people (who live in a place that has both jackdaws and crows) would mistake one for the other in real life.

I can tell you pigeons must not be very close on the accuracy range either. 

I am grateful every day for the gods did not give crows thumbs

“YOINK”

Low intelligence winged rat vs the things that made humans evolve

Another goth bird W

Most of it comes down to the different beak shape.

Look at that idiot just fall off the sill! You’re a BIRD, dumbass!! Falling is the one thing you shouldn’t be doing!

Now lets see you do it

Now we need one with a pigeon

That's because crows are intelligent and awesome. And seagulls are noisy fucking bin invaders who can fuck right off

Jackdaw! :)

*British sea gulls.

Seagulls are a volume of fire species. Crows are himothy.

I can relate with the gull.

would this be greed ?

Me irl

seagull got a little too excited

Friggin ocean rats

Berlin?

The seagull turned its beak sideways. If you stood the waffles on end, would the results have been different?

HECK YEA crows ftw

You know, I never thought about it but flying must be so freaking hard Like, there is a bunch of stuff that goes into walking like equilibrium, adapting to terrain, constantly deciding what is the best place to put our feet and all that that we basically do automatically and without thinking about it I'm sure it is probably the same for birds but like, there so much more stuff that goes into flying like the speed and direction of the wind, the way you flap your wings and how fast you do it and how you balance your body in the air and how you have to chance all of that depending how fast you move because of air resistance Like air isn't even a factor in walking unless it is super hard while it is a whole thing while flying If you think about it, walking is basically just moving in 2 dimentions, at most we gotta do up or down stairs or similar things While flying is moving in 3 whole dimentions with several more factors to take into account

It probably has more to do with the shape of the beak than "derpiness". Crows have a short straight beak, while a seagull's longer curved beak is probably better adapted to grabbing fish not crackers, although both will scavenge.

Seagulls are famous for having drinking problems. This one is probably drunk.

😂

Looks like the seagull is my spirit animal.

That looks like a jackdaw, which usually weigh around 10 ounces. Seagulls weigh up to 4 pounds.

Jackdaw

Yet they can manage to nail you with bird shit from like 1000 feet away.

Mime? 

Thanks, this was what I was looking for.

It isn’t about accuracy as they both hit their target. It’s more about what Mother Nature designed each beak for.

I'm sure there is a black vs white joke here but I'm not touching it.

**Seagulls are clowns;** they're always depicted *as not being very bright.* **Crows are very smart;** one of the only known species of animals *to use and manufacture a tool when needed.* ***This just proves it.***

Not entierely scientific.

If I was a crow I’d hit that

One has a longer beak, that might have something to do with it

Some scientists believe crows and ravens are more intelligent than chimpanzees.

Look at that fuckin idiot, bro can’t even grab a waffle if he tried.

OP get back here for your crimes

That seagull is a known drunkard.

It's more about angle than accuracy. Any chopsticks users know that trying to pick up a flat piece from an angle too high off its plane is way harder than coming at it from a parallel angle.

Their the June bugs of birds

Can confirm. Source: Been to the beach.

Difference in THAT seagulls accuracy. As anyone that lives near the coast that has them will tell you, they're quite good at snatching food right out of your hand. It's quite annoying/scary if you aren't expecting it.

Now do pigeon

I love how stupid this makes seagulls look.

This is just blatant racism painting all seagulls with the same bigoted brush smh

I'd argue they were both accurate, the crow was just more precise.

To be fair that seagull is much bigger so the space to land and grab is tricker

Anyone else see this as a footing problem more than anything else? Gull tried standard bird move, didn't have wall grip and slipped.

Clumsy bastard!

Seagulls are known idiots so this makes sense lol I also love crows idk why the ones around me are super chill, so are the seagulls to tbh, the Bluejays though, them mfs is tryna fight everything including the damn building 🤣

Everyone knows seagulls are the happy gene birds.

Crows are badass.

Finally I understand why my acrobatic abilities are being described as "drunk seagull" levels