Friday, 3 August 2012

Intelligent Scottish Gull

Whilst watching the dolphins at Chanonry Point on the Moray Firth, I noticed a Herring Gull that was picking something off the beach and dropping it back onto the stony foreshore, before flying down and collecting the object again, only to repeat the cycle many times.

In this photo, you can see the falling object just above the line of the beach in the distance.


It appears to be a mollusc of some kind, perhaps a cockle.  Clearly the gull though the reward was worth the work.

The beach where this intelligent gull did the work.



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