Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls...

shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I would suppose that depends on the jurisdiction.

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  • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    it does not. Seagulls are protected in: UK, Ireland, all of Europe, all of North America, Mexico, Australia, Japan, Russia, and probably more but i can’t be bothered to go past the first few Google searches to find out

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Why are they protected? They’re rats with wings.

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      • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        they’re covered by migratory bird protection legislations from what i read. and some of the seagull spiecies are pretty endangered. can’t tell you more than that, i just accepted that the sky thieves dickheads cannot be touched

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I feel like the default is that you aren’t allowed to kill animals. Not as in most laws outlaw killing any animal, just that there are probably a lot of laws about randomly killing animals that aren’t like tiny bugs and stuff. Like you can’t just kill a deer unless you have a hunting permit. You can’t catch fish without a fishing license. Sure, you’re probably allowed to kill animals on your property that are a nuisance or anywhere in defense, but I wouldn’t just assume I can kill a random animal.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well thanks for your exhaustive legal research.

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      • Naich@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        birdfact.com/…/are-seagulls-protected-in-the-uk

        Protected status in the UK.

        HTH.

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      • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        they’re also protected in China and India, which together with the other ones accounts for like 70% of the world. are they protected everywhere? probably not, there are definitely some countries that have little to no wildlife protection legislations, but i’m not exactly a seagull murder law expert, nor do i want to become one, so i’ll stop at that

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        What we need is someone versed in bird law.

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    • Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I like how you said all of North America, and then also Mexico as if it wasn’t part of NA.

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      • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        uhoh, my 2 from geography is showing (scale from 1-6, with 1 being fail)

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      • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        And that UK and Ireland aren’t a part of Europe?

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      all of North America, Mexico

      Hmmm. I mean I guess I get mentioning UK separate from the EU, but idk about Ireland, isn’t it part of the EU?

      To be very clear, I’m not trying to contradict that it’s illegal to kill seagulls in a lot of places.

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      • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        yea i’m bad at geography

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• MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Unless… you do it in self-defense

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