Here we're going to find out what's Tumblr's favorite gull! I love gulls and think it's sad that a lot of people don't realize the diversity of gulls, so I'm also taking this opportunity to highlight the beauty of all gull species.
This tournament was inspired by the other great bird tournament polls out there such as @supremebirdbracket @north-american-duck-poll and @may-the-best-penguin-win.
See the full bracket here!
Completed:
Round 1, Side A
Round 1, Side B
Round 2, Side A
Round 2, Side B
Round 3
Round 4
Semifinals
Final matchup
Congratulations to the lava gull for winning the Best Gull tournament!
[Image ID: Picture of a lava gull standing on a wooden railing next to a coil of rope /End ID]
@todaysbird some very normal bird photos I cropped very normally :)
Image IDs below the cut!
Nine bird photographs, each cropped (and in one case tiled) to look menacing. All of them are real photographs, not ai!
Top left: Two seagulls, one illuminated in the foreground, the other in the background out of focus and in the shade
Middle left: A seagull framed up against the left side of the frame, highly zoomed in on the bird's neck so only their eye and bottom corner of their beak are showing, on blurry dark background
Bottom left: A seagull's pale yellow eye and white head sticking out from the top right corner of the frame against a blurry light background
Top middle: A seagull's open beak and part of its head, backlit against a blurry background. The seagull's beak takes up the top two thirds of the frame, pointing down to the bottom edge.
Middle: A duck in the dark shade looking at the viewer against a slightly brighter water background.
Bottom middle: A white seagull (juvenile) on grey concrete ground. The image of the seagull is triplicated in a repeated tiled photo collage, arranged in a mirrored half-hexagon pattern.
Top right: A seagull's beak and part of its face, with tight focus on its yellow beak, on a blurry greenish-brown background. A shadow is cast over most of its beak. The bird takes up the top right corner of the frame.
Middle right: A backlit seagull on a dark blurry background, glaring directly into the camera, cropped to show only the right half (viewer's left) of the bird's face.
Bottom right: A white and brown speckled seagull (juvenile) with dramatic lighting from the left side. The right side of the gull is in shadow. The image is cropped so the bottom of the gull's right eye (viewer's left) eye is barely showing at the top of the frame. Fun fact: this particular gull mewed rather than squawked :)
The Black-headed Gulls – An Afternoon at the North Sea, part 3 (May 31, 2025). There was a lot of activity on the breeding raft. I didn't understand all the discussions, but a lot of it was about food (quantity, quality, speed of delivery, etc.). The chicks weren't always satisfied.
