![]() ![]() This is made possible by a special pair of glands just above the eyes that flush the salt from their system out through their nostrils. Seagulls are one of the few species of seabirds that can survive drinking salt water, enabling them to venture far out to sea in search of food when necessary.As parents, seagulls are attentive and caring, with both involved in incubating the eggs as well as feeding and protecting the chicks until they fledge.They have a strong societal structure that works very effectively against predators to their breeding colonies, as they will gang up on the intruder with up to a hundred gulls and drive them away, on occasion even driving them out to sea to drown. Seagulls are monogamous creatures that mate for life and rarely divorce.Here are just a few of those facts that make the seagull interesting among its winged peers: ![]() In fact there are dozens of species that call our beaches home most of the year, and even one endemic to the Sea of Cortez, the Yellow-footed Gull distinguishable by its white head, bright yellow beak with a red spot under the tip and bright yellow legs.Īlthough known by most in coastal cities more as pests than graceful, intelligent, skillful seabirds, the seagulls we come across along the beaches of Puerto Peñasco are primarily in the latter category, though not without their quirks and uniqueness among seabirds. Not long after walking the beach regularly you’ll begin to notice slight differences among what you thought were probably one species of seagull. Easily the most ubiquitous bird around our little slice of paradise by the sea is the seagull. ![]()
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