I've seen gulls eating a lot of things I didn't realize until recently. I thought it was all fish and stuff people threw off ferries. They're actually kind of scary if you're a smaller animal.

@mccari09

2 жыл бұрын

Pelicans are quite bad aswell.. they will literally eat anything if they can swallow it. Saw a video of one trying to eat a child 🤣

@toddbennett7157

2 жыл бұрын

@@mccari09 hi

@ArchTeryx00

2 жыл бұрын

Gulls will eat ANYTHING that will fit down their gullets. They're actually quite effective predators, not least because a lot of the prey animals don't really read them as predators until it is far too late.

Jeez, that bird gulped down a rabbit that didn't look all that small in relation to him. I wouldn't have thought he could do that.

Gulls eat about any living thing they can overpower🤔💫✨

@dr0pbearx145

3 жыл бұрын

and hot chips

@vox1003

3 жыл бұрын

Sky rats

@stormlah

2 жыл бұрын

i once seen a seagull on rottnest island fly off with a 1/4 chicken from this girls chicken treat box while the other gulls flew underneath teh chicken hanging from its feet peckin at the chicken

Thank you for acknowledging GBBG's as apex predators in this environment. Something needs to be said not just about them gulping, but that GBBG's have a VERY advanced digestive system, allowing them to digest whole, live prey. Thank you for posting this video.

That’s Big Fred, he won the National Rabbit Gulping Contest two years in a row...119 rabbits in 15 minutes...go Fred!

The music is too cheerful for this video.

@TheRodriguezTwins

3 жыл бұрын

Well it’s life lol

@ChrisShute62

3 жыл бұрын

We can be cheerful that both rabbits and gulls thrive on this island paradise. The video and all sound work perfectly together. Refreshing!

@EmperorDude1990

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know. I think the seagull felt pretty happy about the situation.

@irenemcruz1

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisShute62 Thank you! Also, it is worth remembering that the gulls also have chicks to feed! I need to go back to the island and film that side of the story...

@glennsommer8901

3 жыл бұрын

it isn't... most of these types of music are used for these types of documentaries... that's to make it a little less sad to watch for 'some special' audience members

Gulls the size of turkeys, they sometimes show up in my city and I've always wondered if they ate all the missing cats...

@irenemcruz1

3 жыл бұрын

They unfortunately took a chihuahua last year in Devon. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-49070562

@keemjohnson8863

3 жыл бұрын

Gulls taking on cats are too risky.. hawks and eagles can manage a cat but not a full

@Jan-mu6vs

3 жыл бұрын

@@keemjohnson8863 gulls will try to eat anything that moves

@ShadSimm

3 жыл бұрын

Herry Bells anything they can swallow is fair game. They are as unfussy as any species there is. Demands plaudits. Maybe humans should follow suit...

@Bawks_FEET

3 жыл бұрын

@Jamie Koering 🤣

It's hard to appreciate, but gulls are one of the very few large birds capable of stationary flight.

@aznmarty256

3 жыл бұрын

I think that's just headwind. If it's a bird that soars (ie. eagles, vultures, hawks, etc), it can fly in place as long as it's oriented into the direction of some decent headwind.

@Cola64

3 жыл бұрын

They always face into the wind too

@mccari09

2 жыл бұрын

Ok wtf? They aren’t hummingbirds. That’s called gliding

@dagainz6997

Жыл бұрын

Seagulls are the sea version of urban pigeons.

@asdasd01

10 ай бұрын

What exactly do I need to appreciate about that?

Amazing Footage, I've never seen a Seagull swallow a rabbit whole like that before until now!

I live in pembrokshire and I can clarify that the gulls are huge their twice the size of my dachshund

@gerry5134

3 жыл бұрын

You should buy it a spiked collar so the gulls can't swallow it ! 😨

@stevehove2648

3 жыл бұрын

Probably because they gorge on rabbits!

@turamba

3 жыл бұрын

Well, I have heard rumors of a neapolitan mastiff swallow by gbb gull 🤣

@cappystrano1

3 жыл бұрын

I live in Westerfordhamdevonshire and I have observed this heathen display of character.

@kgilliagorilla2761

3 жыл бұрын

@@cappystrano1 Good lord your town has a long name. The heathen gulls here eat French fries from fast food parking lots. Cheers from Chicago!

Rabbits are food for everything,, they have a rough life.

@mandy2917

3 жыл бұрын

M. M. Ducklings have it even worse

@stevehove2648

3 жыл бұрын

They have a short life.

@hustle_simmons

3 жыл бұрын

That's why they reproduce so much in large numbers

@Icewind007

3 жыл бұрын

As a super successful prey species, they are literally made to be expendable.

@johnrandall125

3 жыл бұрын

It's a hard fact the rabbits have a rough life, but it's easily digestible!

This film is wonderfully captured! The shot of the puffin is beautiful, and the ground-level views of the wildlife really bring the video to life. Love to see more of your wildlife films!

I want to see what these gulls look like in a few thousand years. Some giant predatory hawklike seagull.

@Methasulem

3 жыл бұрын

With rabbit ears

@tjeerdoosinga9932

3 жыл бұрын

The world doesn't less that long dude .

@pokoirlyase5931

3 жыл бұрын

Because of climate change, they will probably evolve to be larger omnivorous species. Being a specialized predator is a risky strategy in the future. The animals that thrive nowadays are all omniovorous. But a larger size would probably help them navigate longer distances in search of food since it will become scarcer

@spindalis79

3 жыл бұрын

They already exist. Look up Jaegers and Skuas. Same family as gulls... Laridae.

@raylumin8708

3 жыл бұрын

Legend has it that some of these gulls have grown up to be albatrosses.☝️👋😎

Surprised there isn't an RSPCR! Rabbits certainly need an org like this to protect them!

When I was a schoolboy we spent a week on this island. In the morning we collected eggs from the gulls' nests along the cliffs. There was a raven with a split tongue that could talk. I lay down in an empty grass field and in minutes it was full of rabbits, some even hopping on my chest. There was an estimated 40,000 of them on half-a-square mile when I was there! The lighthouse keepers shot them for food with an air rifle. I've always remembered the fact that Skokholm rabbits were immune to myxomatosis, a terrible, man-made rabbit disease, because they share the same burrows and fleas as the birds there which killed the disease-carrying fleas. The Greater Black-backed Gulls also attacked and ate the poor shearwaters coming back to their nests in their burrows. Amazing memories from over 50 years ago. I just went to a page that offers stays on the island -- I just might add that to my bucket list if I can ever get back to the UK!

@halibut1249

3 жыл бұрын

Great black-backed gulls, as they are called, are BIG BIRDS, the largest member of the gull family. They have a five foot wingspan and dark wings that give them a striking look, esp in contrast to the smaller and much more plentiful ring bill gulls. I see a few black-backeds wintering along the Hudson River north of NYC; when the weather gets warm they're gone. They're very shy around humans, usually perched on a piling at a distance. As far as gulls go, they have the nickname "king of the Atlantic" because of their size and handsome dark wings.

@paulpvhl1930

3 жыл бұрын

@@halibut1249 Thanks for the correction. Either I was repeating what I remembered from youth, or got it wrong because the lesser black-backed gull suggests a greater should exist! Out of interest here's a dictionary entry: "great black-backed gull (redirected from Greater Black-backed Gull)" I am not alone. :0) Cheers.

@lonebarn

3 жыл бұрын

Do it. It is still as magical as ever!

@paulpvhl1930

3 жыл бұрын

@@lonebarn Thanks John. I've still got three sisters in England so it might happen some day, especially since I just became a senior.

@Paiadakine

2 жыл бұрын

@paul . That was cool story. That must have been a great experience.

Wow, that Gul literally gulped down a whole rabbit. After a meal like that, he could paint your brand spanking new Toyota with a delightful mix of a bird master piece from the sky, on the first day of ownership.

@jdd6447

2 жыл бұрын

Wtf bro 🤣🤣🤣 a fucking picaso.

@Brecconable

Жыл бұрын

HAHAHA!

I just can't stop laughing at the suspicious way seagulls walk

@robertstdon9280

2 жыл бұрын

They have suspicious minds .

@Brecconable

Жыл бұрын

Keep your eyes peeled and your chips fucking covered!

@TonyEnglandUK

Жыл бұрын

@@Brecconable lmao oh god I want that on a t-shirt.

Nature is both beautiful & savage at the same time.

Wow life is soo beautiful definitely

Babble all you want about graphic imagery and stuff. If you eat burgers, you are the most vicious predator of them all. Anyways, just wanted to say that after learning what they can eat (sorry GULP) I absolutely love them, especially those that have acquired a taste for pigeons. Seeing a seagull that eats a pigeon. Man, what a therapeutic view.

2:25 Me, 5 seconds after I get my pizza home.

@MagentaOtterTravels

3 жыл бұрын

For sure! Same

@smallstudiodesign

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@harvestmite8484

3 жыл бұрын

A delicious meal is there reward Which quite alarmingly they can swallow hole

Very nice little piece of information about a place I was not familiar with. Also, I wasn't aware of those beautiful, big gulls. Nice piece Irene! Keep up the good work! 👍

@irenemcruz1

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I will try :) 👍

2:32 When you're greedy and lament the loss of even a single crumb, lol

Rabbits really are at the bottom of the foodchain they get eaten by everything.

@mscarolynnigro

3 жыл бұрын

I know... my hamster took one down last week

@durt9872

3 жыл бұрын

They are tasty 😋

@durt9872

3 жыл бұрын

Costeño Salao chlorophyll, more like bore-ophyll

@rightknowledgeman

3 жыл бұрын

Bugs Bunny would kill them

@gentlemanphilosopher5342

3 жыл бұрын

@@mscarolynnigro very good. Very clever. ;)

Good job Irene!!!!

Ok, so the rabbits now wanting to help the gull in Watership Down is making a lot more sense

@DinnerForkTongue

3 жыл бұрын

*not

@tarico4436

3 жыл бұрын

That's one thicc book. Do we have a reader on our hands? Or did you listen to this novel by Adams?

@Talongirl333

3 жыл бұрын

TAR ICO - read the book, I have a mini library. At last count, I literally had over 1,000 books

@amitaimedan

3 жыл бұрын

@@tarico4436 Ther are two cartoon version of the book, one I believe is on netflix from 2018 and the other from 1978 that you can watch on youtube for free.

@Talongirl333

3 жыл бұрын

Amitai Medan - there’s also an animated series of the book

These gulls are regular visitors to our garden. They are huge and their plumage is very beautiful.

@fdfsdfsvsfgsg4888

2 жыл бұрын

That seems unlikely, since they go nowhere near human-inhabited areas. You've more likely got Lesser Black-backed Gulls. Similar but way smaller and more abundant.

Great video work!!!

“A delicious meal” Looks like the only thing that they’re tasting is wet fur

Little bunny looked so cute to Sea Gull he gobble him whole...😍

Since no one else has done it! 2:09 Ahem: MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE!

@anib8863

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@albireotheredguard1599

3 жыл бұрын

@@anib8863 Welcome.

@MagentaOtterTravels

3 жыл бұрын

Well done!!! LOL

Nice composing,,,,love it!

Irene Mendez Cruz is super cute 💗☺️

What do Rabbits taste like Mr. Seagull ? - " F**K knows ? I just just Swallow em Whole "

Impresionante.

So who is killing all the rabbits since none were shown actually being hunted?

@autobotrock4789

3 жыл бұрын

I think the gulls peck them to death.

@kurama670

3 жыл бұрын

One of the gulls is a serial killer, and the rest of the gulls are just cleaning up his mess.

@Eddycoolbiscuits

3 жыл бұрын

Jessica

@CalaTec

3 жыл бұрын

Staged as most documentaries. Is like mantis eating "insert big animal". You get to see the mantis attack the animal. All the sudden a cut and the animal already died and the mantis is munching on it.

@thomasmuller1850

3 жыл бұрын

@@CalaTec I remember a documentary, where they hold an alive gecko against a mantis with a green glove to let him being eaten: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iJ2YuZd6k72egqg.html

Great place loved going there for my weeks stay

Impressionante!

So...what King Arthur and his Monty Python troupe of knights needed was a Black Backed Gull, and not a Holy Hand Grenade ?

I'm now going down the "what else do gulls eat" rabbit hole. Looks like those rabbits did too.

Rabbit, "you don't even have a razor-sharp beak, or an intimidating scream. i am getting eaten whole by something with webbed feet instead of talons. wtf"

🤯Well, dang! 😎💯👍🏻❤️🙏🧼

@irenemcruz1

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

I guess the seagull from family guy that suggested hunting for their own meal for the last laugh

I love Welsh Rarebit.

Scotland has got to be the most beautiful place on earth.

@CarolineLeinster

3 жыл бұрын

Possibly. But this is Wales.

@gautamv952

3 жыл бұрын

@@CarolineLeinster Thanks for correcting me. I thought Skokholm was in Scotland.

@CarolineLeinster

3 жыл бұрын

@@gautamv952 No worries. The name looks Scandinavian to most native English speakers. Pembrokeshire is the south-west corner of Wales.

How the he'll they digest bones?

Seemed like all those rabbits where already dead before they got eaten

@EveleeR

3 жыл бұрын

Could be playing dead out of fear, but who really knows 😨 imagine swallowing a whole ass rabbit.

@chateaupig826

3 жыл бұрын

That last one looked fresh

@EveleeR

3 жыл бұрын

@@chateaupig826 bird probably shook it and it's neck broke. I hope it was dead being swallowed 🤪

@kurama670

3 жыл бұрын

Omae wa a mou shindeiru!

@irenemcruz1

3 жыл бұрын

​@@EveleeR Yes that is exactly what happened. That particular gull spent its days stalking the baby rabbits and once they came out of their burrows he would swoop one - peck it to death with its sharp beak, then swallow it. :/

Some very good footage there, good camera work too

This made me want a yummy bunny in my tummy as well

"Waiter? There's a hair in my rabbit... Well, actually, the whole fur, but... c'mon!”

Garddem. Even the way THE song ends

that last bit was delicious !!!

i have never heard of rabbit-eating gulls, damn!

Oh, those rabbits

GBBG are pidgeon exterminators in New Zealand. I had one drop a half dead one on my windscreen as it battled to escape the collision.

They need these gulls in Australia !

@onlythetruth4039

2 жыл бұрын

For rats ?

@DARisse-ji1yw

2 жыл бұрын

@@onlythetruth4039 For wabbits !

Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it.

I love Seagulls, didn't know they have such deep throats though. Lol. Poor Rabbits, they're at the top of the food chain on every Predators List. The Predators on the ground and in the air.

@ekkehard8

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, not even the tinier critters spare them. They still have grass though. Friendly, completely harmless grass

Happy music doesnt quite match the gruesome imagery, unless you're a gull I guess.

A gull really gulped down a rabbit, wasnt dissapointed

Those Gulls are amazing, I usually start gagging if I get just one hair down the back of my throat! Slurp, slurp!!!

Wow !

How long before the gull could take off after that though?

Wonderful film. It's obvious that you have skills on the professional level. Why no other films? 🎥 📺🎙

Im assuming they also digest the bones?

@tehutimes1

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently like owls, falcons, hawks, & eagles they'll become pellets.

@lablunt6190

3 жыл бұрын

Yea, birds have a gizzards that are muscles that grind down hard parts of food. Birds have to ingest small rocks so it works like a grinder.

Rabbits do all that good for nature and this is the thanks!!

Cool

My god, how do these guys move afterwards with a full rabbit in their stomach

Its watership down all over again!

Well, I thought the video would answer my question and it didn't. How do the seagulls kill the rabbit? If anyone knows, let me know

@irenemcruz1

3 жыл бұрын

Hi there, annoyingly I missed that key shot... ​ That particular gull spent its days stalking the baby rabbits and once they came out of their burrows he would swoop one of them- peck it to death with its sharp beak, then swallow it. I once even saw a gull flying away with an adult rabbit and purposefully drop it from the air to the ground!

@adrianmacgrath5814

3 жыл бұрын

That was the one disappointing thing. I am not criticising, it's hard to get those shots

@irenemcruz1

3 жыл бұрын

@@adrianmacgrath5814 Absolutely! I'll try my luck again next year. Thanks for watching the video :)

@blueshoes5145

3 жыл бұрын

They damage the neck by bitting and then shaking the whole body. That vigorous shake at the neck will rip the breathing and blood vessel structures and even the neck bone. Once it's limp and unmoving...ita gulping time. Otherwise it would take them ages to shred and peel flesh one by one. And there are too many competitors that is waiting for the oppurtunity to take a bit of yours.

I love this video. Very nice work! How do the gulls get along with the puffins (and humans)? Is it possible to train the gulls to bring us food?

@irenemcruz1

3 жыл бұрын

Rob Loblaw they actually also eat the puffins!

@Stonemonkie1

Жыл бұрын

"is it possible to train the gulls to bring us food?" I am now imagining one of these gulls vomiting a half digested whole rabbit into your waiting mouth. Thanks for that.

How do they fly after eating a whole rabbit? Birds are typically lighter than they look. Must be twice as heavy after eating a bunny.

@shreddder999

3 жыл бұрын

They alternately hop and fly.

I was eating at a seaside pizza joint one time with some buddies. Outdoor seating only. You had to guard your food from the seagulls and some were very aggressive. This one seagull though was more passive and would just hangout with the diners looking for handouts. My buddy wadded up some Copenhagen snuff in some pizza crust and fed it to it. About 10 minutes later the bird wasn't looking too good and when they brought out another group of diner's pizza the bird hopped up on their table and projectile vomited all over them and their pizza.

Dang that camerawork is insane, may I ask what camera?

Let's face it, bunnies are meant to be eaten. The only defense they have is their erratic hopping maneuvers, which isn't that effective from all appearances. I've seen so many different predators prey on these creatures it would probably be easier to list which species don't. Poor things, designed to be sustenance for the upper tiers of the food chain...

@hundido9287

3 жыл бұрын

That is why they reproduce so fast.

@DinnerForkTongue

3 жыл бұрын

And they breed explosively. It's almost like they were designed to be a meat source.

@akaakaakaak5779

3 жыл бұрын

it's an evolutionary trade. They trade survival for reproduction

@gusbakker

3 жыл бұрын

Well, some bunnies are lucky to be adopted as pets, like the ones I have!

@hundido9287

3 жыл бұрын

@@gusbakker good for your bunny I guess the other ones are not so lucky.

Prince with a thousand enemies.

Those gulls would have to be on the top ten list of gluttons

How do they hunt them?

Reminds me of Watershed Down

Watership Down: Game of the Year Edition

I was curious to see how they actually captured the rabbits with webbed feet and all

@ekkehard8

2 жыл бұрын

Even tiny weasels make breakfast out of bunnies. I doubt the gull considers this a close fight

Damn nature

@elcapitano9384

3 жыл бұрын

You scary

I didn’t see the hyphen in the title at first. Thought I was going to see a rabbit eat a seagull.

I hope it comes out WHOLE also.

@sharky562

2 жыл бұрын

🤣😂

Birds are scaled down dinosaurs

Holy crap, whole yep whole rabbit.

Are rabbits native to Skokholm Island?

Gulls stole the money filled wallet of my brother in law off the table he was sat at, took it on top of the buildings never to be seen again...i like gulls:)

@egreenie3819

3 жыл бұрын

Take that your not too fond of the brother-in-law tho, eh?...lol

@Hoodoo123

3 жыл бұрын

@@egreenie3819 nope, he's a prat, well done gulls i thought:)

@egreenie3819

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hoodoo123 Lmao😅

@psychiatry-is-eugenics

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a good excuse . 😏

@irenemcruz1

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hoodoo123 That is hilarious!

OMFRIGGING! WTF? Are you kidding me? Please Please send some of these Gulls to us here on OZ to help get rid of our rabbits. From the Land of OZ.

I read this as gull-eating rabbits and was expecting a very different film 😂

These gulls are gangsta AF.

How do they digest the skull tho? Isn't it too large to be pooped out??

How many channels going to show the same video

I imagine this is how a T-Rex would eat

Damn gulled down whole.

"Get in my BELLY!" 😂

Beware sweet animals when the Rowdy Sailors Blow into Town…🎶😳😱🕊

The gulls out there slicing and dicing....

Damm basically atk on titan but rabbits

I've got to show this video to my wife😉