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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Baby Sea Gulls
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Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 11:29:05 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 25 11:29:05 1985
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I've seen lots of baby sea gulls.

One day, I was walking along the dunes on a beach at Martha's Vineyard
and encountered a gull nest with some babies inside.  The babies look
completely different from the adults -- sort of like giant chicks,
but brown and spotted.  When I got too close to the nest, the mother
started dive-bombing me to make me go away.  It worked -- they fly
up to 25 feet or so, fold their wings, and down they come.  They
aim for the eyes.

Adolescent gulls are the same shape, and almost the same size, as
adults, but they are still brown.  They don't get their grey and white
coloration until they're the better part of a year old.