BBC Wildlife Magazine

GULLS ON FILM

Don’t mind if I do

The lesser black-backed gulls and herring gulls (juvenile pictured) of Amsterdam know to expect breakfast when residents put their bin bags out in the morning, says David Hup, who spent a year photographing the birds in his native Netherlands: “They tear the bags apart and spread the rubbish all over the street.”

Grub’s up

When bin lorries arrive at this waste processing centre in Amsterdam, huge flocks of gulls fly down from neighbouring rooftops to ransack the newly arrived rubbish. “It was total mayhem with gulls

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