BRENNINKMEIJER A (1998) Black-headed Gull Larus ridibundus catches Wood Mouse Apodemus sylvaticus. LIMOSA 71 (4): 166-167.
While trying to steal a fish from a Sandwich Tern Sterna
sandvicensis arriving at a colony in the Dutch Wadden
Sea, a Black-headed Gull was seen catching a Wood
Mouse by accident. Before the gull was able to swallow
the mouse, a Common Gull L. canus robbed it from the
astonished Black-headed Gull.
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