The Gull and the Shark

I found a fun sequence while looking through old Barnegat Light pictures: a second year Great Black-backed Gull getting ready to eat a small dead shark. Gulls are omnivores and will pretty much eat anything, including small sharks. Just type “daring seagull eats live baby shark” into YouTube if you want to watch a gull in action. The bird on the right in the two top pictures is a Herring Gull. The captions are what I imagine they were saying to each other :-).

“A shark?…Looks like a treat!”

Herring Gull: ” Hey Black-backed, you gonna eat that?”

“Of course I’m gonna eat it!”

“This shark is mine! ALL MINE!”