Ring billed gull eats Ovenbird

[dodo]

I was watching an Ovenbird running around in Simcoe Place park beside CBC building on Front St. and a Ring billed gull lunged at it caught it in its bill. The seagull then killed and swallowed the Ovenbird.

[Paul O'Toole]

Those gulls are aggressive, I watched one last year catch and eat a sandpiper.

[Henrique Pacheco]

Friends have told me stories about them standing at the tip of Point Pelee, watching the birds fly to the tip, and some times when a migrating songbird is really tired, the gull with fly into it while it's flying to knock it unsteady then catch them in midair and eat them. Gulls are very opportunistic.

[BC]

I wonder if the gulls are learning to hunt birds dazed from striking buildings?

[dodo]

Gulls are known to congregate downtown in a spot at the TD Centre where  migrating birds are most likely to fly into a building .The gulls are then able to catch and eat the dying and weakened ones that fall to the ground.