Stunning footage has surfaced online of a seagull swooping in and stealing a paste from a woman's hands, completely startling her.
TikTok The video casually begins with a young woman sitting on the beach in her Regis in Lyme, Dorset, taking a paste-like substance out of a brown paper bag.
Another voice off-camera prompted the smiling woman to pick up and eat a delicious snack before she took a bite.
However, before she can begin to bite, a ferocious seagull swoops over her and wrests the entire paste from her hands in a swift motion.
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TikTok)A pebble-paved beach with birds chirping when the camera is turned down and two pop cans are projected.
The viral video, which has been viewed 2.6 million times and received more than 333,000 likes, contains the captions 'wait' and 'not food' and a tearful laughing emoji. is served with
Next, a replay of's warning clip throws her in motion, so that the viewer can see the feathered food thief making a paste from the woman's hand with his beak. You can see how the paste is peeled off.
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TikTok)I bought one, so the user who uploaded the video joked, "If anyone wants to compete with the seagulls who did this, it's Lyme Regis."
This incident shows that in the past five years since the rules to protect nests and eggs were enacted, attacks by seagulls have gone from 544 in 2016 to 956 in 2020, and 956 in 2021. This follows a report by The Sunday Times that showed the number of cases had risen to 1,075.
Most incidents involve complaints of disturbance and noise, but a quarter of local authorities highlight physical attacks on people and pets by seagulls.
The council was once able to adopt "lethal control" of herring gulls as part of a broader permit to limit the number of problem birds.
However, after a conservationist campaign in 2019, seagulls were removed from the general license and the council had to apply on a case-by-case basis.
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