Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most closely related to the terns and skimmers and only distantly related to auks, and even more distantly to waders. Gulls are typically medium to large in size, usually grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings.[1]
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Seagulls were featured in the documentary.
In 150 years after people, seagulls are flourishing due to an abundance of fish in the oceans of the world, but it took them many struggles to reach this point. When humans were around, the population of gulls around the world exploded due to the ease of getting food from human settlements, either by scavenging or by stealing it from people. John Anderson stated that humans are messy species and have open landfill dumps full of scraps, which helped seagulls survive their first winter at a much higher rate than in the wild. With this supply of food cut off, an immediate consequence was the hungry seagulls returning to the wild to look for food on their own.
After an initial die-off of seagulls, the surviving seagulls then took advantage of the recovering oceans, with the various species having learned to no longer rely on their old providers and return to solely catching their food by themselves.
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