1. They Are Caring and Attentive Parents. Both the Male and Female Pair for Life and Take

 1. They are caring and attentive parents. Both the male and female pair for life and take turns to incubate, feed and protect the chicks.  2. They will eat or try to eat almost anything. Which probably explains why they can be found in all parts of the world.  3. They can live a long time. Up to 40 years in captivity but typically only 10 in the wild.  4. They can learn, remember and pass on behaviour. I have seen a flock of gulls all furiously stamping their feet in unison in order to immitate rainfall and trick earthworms to rise to the surface. I have also seen adults teaching their chicks how to smash open shellfish  5. They are all terrain. Although their large webbed feet can make them appear comical and clumsy on land.  6. They have a small claw half way up their lower leg which they use to prevent being blown off narrow ledges when they sit down or roost.  7. They can drink salt water this is because seagulls have a special pair of glands right above their eyes, specifically designed to flush the salt from their systems through openings in the bill.  8. Juvenile birds form nursery flocks and will be watched over by a few adult males. Where they will play, fight and learn the skills needed for survival. They will stay with the flock until they are old enough to breed.  9. Seagulls naturally inhabit shear cliff faces but have recently come to live on our roofs and amoung our chinmey pots. This is because humans provide easy pickings and gulls are either clever or lazy depending on your point of view.  10. They have excellent eyesight, better than you or me and unlike most birds their eyes can move in their sockets.eyes, specifically designed to flush the salt from their systems through openings in the bill.  8. Juvenile birds form nursery flocks and will be watched over by a few adult males. Where they will play, fight and learn the skills needed for survival. They will stay with the flock until they are old enough to breed.  9. Seagulls naturally inhabit shear cliff faces but have recently come to live on our roofs and amoung our chinmey pots. This is because humans provide easy pickings and gulls are either clever or lazy depending on your point of view.  10. They have excellent eyesight, better than you or me and unlike most birds their eyes can move in their sockets.

Clouds, clouds are pretty in the sky: (ripple arms two times, dip run forward) Cirrus, like mare’s tails, in the sky float high (reach low to high)

Cumulus, Stratus, and nimbus go down low (melt down low)

Altostratus, Altoculumus are middle of the row (balance in the middle)

Seagulls, seagulls soar through the sky (fly around partner) Mom and Dad protect their chicks before they can fly (run, run leap reach up to the sky)

Seagulls have great eye-site; better than you or me (spin right reach up, spin left reach up) Their eyes move in their sockets; which helps them to see