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    Default 1 foot Lesser Black-backed Gull

    Tripod + Jobu JR2 Gimbal Head
    Camera: Canon EOS 7D
    Lens: Sigma 120-300/2.8 OS + Sigma TC 2.0X
    Shooting Mode: Aperture-Priority Av
    Metering Mode: Evaluative Metering
    Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/1000
    Av( Aperture Value ) 8.0
    ISO 1600

    Only at the computer I noticed the gull doesn't have its left foot. I'm curious if this is caused by some disease, fight or fishing nets along the lake.


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    I worked for the RSPCA {Royal Society for the Protvention of Cruelty to Animals } for many years, primarily I managed the Marine Rescue Unit here and encountering this sort of thing daily.

    Seagulls and other water birds missing one leg is common and for a number of reasons. In Australia one of the most common causes is from entanglement in nylon fishing line wrapping around the leg, cutting off circulation and eventually the leg falling off....sometimes leading to death depending on exactly where the fishing line is enmeshed. Can also be caused as a result of swimming amoung a feeding freenzy of fish, the dangling leg beneath the water surface being mistaken for food.

    Well spotted Fabio, and hopefully a lesson passed on to fishermen to remove discarded fishing line from the environment

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    I never have understood why people can't clean up after themselves in the outdoors. I see discarded trot lines all over the rivers around here all the time. I have seen numerous songbirds with only one leg, results of a predator or injury I suppose. The gulls in this image are a little soft and I would remove the two pilings and the oof white behind old one leg. TFS

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    it's an interesting record shot, I've seen these guys with one leg too. too bad for the bird :(

    As for critique, I'm not sure if it works as an avain photo. the gull is soft with his head turned away from us, it is rather small in the frame and the man-made elements such as the platform hurt the aesthetics. The 2nd gull doesn't add much so you may want to concentrate on the on-footed bird only.
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