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Bridwatch

Affectionately known in many places as garbage gulls, ring-billed gulls feel preternaturally comfortable around humans, happily accepting handouts of french fries or apple cores or, in my experience, pizza crust. They consume anything edible and rise like clouds from garbage dumps when a delivery arrives.

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I’ve seen hundreds of ring-billeds take to the air when a garbage truck arrived at a

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