The Internet's Most Hated Bird

Endless Thread

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Reddit, Technology

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Gulls are not beloved creatures. Consult social media, where they are deemed relentless, dirty pests who steal our food and crowd our beaches. As one TikTok user puts it, "Seagulls are the worst animals to ever exist."

Such hatred overlooks truths about this intelligent, charismatic animal, and it is masking a big problem: While gulls may seem like they are everywhere, many species are dying.

Endless Thread goes on a journey to reconsider the seagull.

You can learn more and see photos of the gulls of Appledore here.

Credits: This episode was written and produced by Dean Russell. Mix and sound design by Emily Jankowski. The hosts are Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson.

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0:15.0	Boston. I can only imagine that you are Noah.
0:25.0	Hey, how are you?
0:29.0	Ben and Amory, I, Dean Russell, want to take you on a unique tour of where I live.
0:35.8	Your new apartment where you apparently live with a new roommate named Noah?
0:39.7	It's so easy to spot burgers and birding professors of various stripes when you go to meet them.
0:47.0	They always have binox and are usually looking at a bird.
0:51.0	Simple equipment.
0:53.1	It is one of the hottest days of the summer
0:55.4	in the city of Portland, Maine.
0:57.2	Eight in the morning, I'm pouring sweat,
1:00.0	and instead of seeking shade, I'm going climbing, roof climbing.
1:06.4	So you just, do you call ahead of time or do you?
1:09.7	It depends on the building.
1:10.9	Okay.
1:11.8	This is the police station so I imagine a call ahead? No. No.
1:17.1	The man I'm following into a police station to summit its roof is wearing shorts, a ball cap, and these like impressive binoculars.
1:27.0	He looks vaguely like the younger more athletic brother of Nicholas Cage, if you can kind of picture of that.
1:34.4	Nicholas is offended but okay.
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