I live in the Midwest and there isn't an ocean near me. But when I am in big, open, outside parking lots, there seems to be a bunch of sea gulls flying around. How do they get there and why do they stick around? Do they think the reflection from the cars looks like the ocean or something?
2006-06-25 16:29:54 · 27 answers · asked by NiceGuyJin 1 in Pets ➔ Birds
I know they are looking for food, but how did they get there in the first place if I'm no where near a major body of water?
2006-06-25 16:35:26 · update #1
They cant afford the parking fees
Also there are a lot of seagulls that have migrated in land to dumps where they scavenge. If the lot has the right wind currents around it so that the seagulls can rride the currents without expending energy they will hang around waiting for feeding opportunities.
2006-06-28 08:27:00 · answer #1 · answered by dopeysaurus 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Birds are often carried to different locations by the winds of storms. Some just start flying in a direction with several others and eat as they travel along and don't ever return to where they came from. Thousands of them travel between landfills all the time.
Gulls are just opportunists and are always looking for a scrap to eat then they also like to bomb people so never look up at a gull...you might just take some incoming!
2006-06-25 23:44:29 · answer #2 · answered by pinelake302 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They fly there! They stick around because people have a habit of throwing bits of food out for them! Gulls are greedy birds by nature and will eat almost anything on offer! Food is the answer.
2006-06-26 10:23:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They may have been fed by other people so they hang around to see if others will feed them. You will even find a lot of Gulls in garbage dumps looking for scraps, they eat almost anything they can find.
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2006-06-26 09:46:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trash they are looking for food . they hang around dump sites too.
also if the parking lot is flat at a higher level then surrounding area thay like to congregate in places like that.
2006-06-25 23:33:39 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seagulls are built for long-distance flying. And they're very savvy scavengers. They know that humans tend to drop food in parking lots.
2006-06-25 23:37:51 · answer #6 · answered by Tigger 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are there for the food. Just like fat relatives at a wedding. People use parking lots as trash cans, and the birds learn quick that food is plentiful.
Some birds learn to raid the cans themselves. Next time someone calls you bird brain, say Thanks.
2006-06-25 23:33:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, it's the food, they go where the scraps are, they are real scavengers when they aren't hunting fish.
They are related to, Pigions.
I know, I'm a semi Floridian.
Not, born here, but may as well have been.. Loll..
2006-06-26 00:40:21 · answer #8 · answered by paula b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There Looking For Cars To Steal....
2006-06-25 23:39:41 · answer #9 · answered by a. e 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Target practice
2006-06-25 23:31:01 · answer #10 · answered by david s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋