Herring Gull dancing on the floor

This is a rescued juvenile Herring Gull. The bird was malnourished and injured when it arrived at our house. This dancing is a natural gull behaviour. Birds tap their feet on the ground to make the earthworms think it's raining and to lure them to the surface. This was the first time I saw the gull come out of the shower cabin where she stayed until then and dance in our bedroom. I couldnt help but laugh!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• seagull
• gull
• rescue
• rehabilitation
• birds
• animals
• herring gull

[JazzLassie6020]

"Where are the Earthworms?" >v<"

[fulmaress]

@JazzLassie6020 "come on, squiggles, come up! I know you're there..."

[Clarissa83100]

She seems to enjoy the sound! Like my gull playing keyboard like crazy years ago. Animals ARE creative, experimenting a lot. Where's your gull now? Did it learn to fly. The right wing looked like dropping a bit to me in the shower, but I might be wrong.

[fulmaress]

@Clarissa83100 Thanks very much. I decided after a month of caring for this bird and seeing no great progress to find a better place. Local aquarium agreed to look after her, they had lots of space and good supply of fresh food. Another month later there still seemed to be not much progress, but as it was spring, they released the bird after consulting with a local vet. Personally, I don't think she survived, but we did as much as possible for her and it was worth the try.

[Clarissa83100]

@fulmaress Funnily in Romania there's a YouTube user who looks for a disabled gull. His gull died during surgery last year, for they tried to fix the wing. Frankly I think, a pet gull is supposed to remain a pet gull. It's not a bad life, out in nature it's very tough. But of course not anybody is ready and able to spend their lives with a winged cat. Nonetheless, my YouTube channel is advocating that. :)

[fulmaress]

@Clarissa83100 I think this depends on an individual bird. My Gull was not happy in captivity. she was constantly very stressed and frustrated, weary of all humans, always looking for ways to get away. This is probably why she failed to put on weight and regain her strength. This particular bird would not like to be a pet, unless she could live in a big safe area with features such as pond, perch, things to climb up, with other gulls to interact and a minimum human contact.

[Clarissa83100]

@fulmaress Interesting. My gull actually likes to be with humans and fears other herring gulls. If you leave her alone on the terrace, she downright presses the beak against the door and if you finally open, you see how relieved she is, shoving in right away. I will what you said consider too. Thanks!

[mariojragucci2]

Humans can not attempt to explain this behavior, although it usually brings a smile to us. Gulls have been on Earth much longer than humans, and have had big time to develop jestures we can, perhaps, never understand :-0

[Jarnkamin]

Love it! Awesome!

[alectheseagull]

hope this happens to me