Seagulls for food

[jansman]

Islanders used to take the young birds from the nests but they're supposed to be far too salty to be nice.

Knew you would know living up there on the edge of the Arctic circle Lil!

[james c]

I wouldnt recomend eating seagulls as they tend to spend time at rubbish dumps feeding,think they could be poisonious to eat, as a boy i used to catch pigions with a box,stick,twine and a bit of bait

[itsybitsy]

Isn't a big part of why we prep so that we DON'T have to start skulking about after rancid creatures such as seagulls?!? If things were so bad that someone is reduced to that then I think the situation has really gone to hell in a handbasket and something has gone seriously wrong in your preps. I can't see things ever gettting that bad in the UK, but if they did, I don't intend to let it get that bad for me, personally.

[jansman]

Isn't a big part of why we prep so that we DON'T have to start skulking about after rancid creatures such as seagulls?!? If things were so bad that someone is reduced to that then I think the situation has really gone to hell in a handbasket and something has gone seriously wrong in your preps. I can't see things ever gettting that bad in the UK, but if they did, I don't intend to let it get that bad for me, personally.

You said it for me too, Itsy! Rancid sums it up nicely.

[Lucky Jim]

I wouldn't fancy eating a seagull because they eat garbage, but pigeons might be a good option, I hear Trafalgar Square is full of 'em, yummy..

[Plymtom]

I hear Trafalgar Square is full of 'em, yummy

So's Plymouth one hit me in town last week comming in to land as for seaguls yeah we have loads of them too noisy £$$^% nesting between the chimney pots around here and dropping KFC bones all over the roof, Like you Jim I don't fancy eating them, (not much meat on em come to that) but often fancied shooting the buggers ( I know, I know, not allowed )

[diamond lil]

Not sure on how it affects eating them - but falconers know that wild pigeons carry TB. They are wary in case their hawks catch it from them, that's why its recommended that you take the breast and leave the rest.

[Lucky Jim]

..as for seaguls yeah we have loads of them too noisy £$$^% nesting between the chimney pots around here and dropping KFC bones all over the roof, Like you Jim I don't fancy eating them, (not much meat on em come to that) but often fancied shooting the buggers ( I know, I know, not allowed )

Ah but seagulls and pigeons do a useful job picking up all the food litter that's left around the pub/club/restaurant/chip shop area; otherwise it'd just rot and attract flies and maggots til the council workmen get round to picking it up..
(The street rubbish bins are a joke, they quickly fill up and overflow)
Incidentally I can't figger seagulls out because they seem to spend all their time scavenging; you'd think they'd look at their webbed feet for paddling, long legs for wading, long beak for probing the mud flats, and put two and two together and realise they're supposed to be seabirds and go off to get fish and things from the sea and shoreline..

PS- young brown seagulls are pathetic snivelling creatures, look at this ones wimpy body language and ridiculous squeaking as it asks to be fed-
http://youtu.be/WP5E4dFZp2g

[Shymatty]

TBH in a SHTF situation I wouldn't care if a Dodo walked past, I'd still try to shoot it for food.

If you need to feed yourself / your family then if that means shooting a seagul then so be it.

However, in non-shtf situations, like others have said, it would depend wether its classed as a pest or legal game.

I don't know wether it is or not.

However I know of someone who has been in a part of the world where locals eat Penguin eggs, and the description he gave for the taste was "it was like eatting a strong fishy egg".

He said it was horrendous and due to the penguins diet.

So using the same logic, wether you catch a seagul thats been living by the seaside eatting fish and shellfish all its life, or a seagul thats been scatting about a landfill, its probably gonna taste like shit.