A Nova Scotia man once banned from a B.C. hotel for letting pepperoni-feasting seagulls destroy his room claims Maritime gulls would never do that. An ornithologist says otherwise.
Seventeen years ago, Dartmouth. N.S., native Nick Burchill was visiting the west coast when he left an open suitcase full of pepperoni on a table by his hotel window—in hopes the cool Victoria air would be a good substitute for the lack of a fridge in his room.
Could this be true? Are Maritime gulls equally as laid back as the citizens of Atlantic Canada, compared to the bold and shameless seagulls of the west? Would east coast seagulls have left the pepperoni to its rightful owner? Ninety-five per cent of the gulls in Victoria are called glaucous-winged gulls. They would be the pepperoni snatchers. I’m not at all surprised if you left pepperoni out there, [they’d notice it] with that smell. A lot of people think birds can’t smell, but that’s not true. The turkey vultures I have soaring around my house are among the best smellers in the business, but gulls are pretty good too.
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