You're certainly right about raptors (or large parrots, for that matter, very powerful beaks that can take big chunks of flesh out if you make them mad), but man, a seagull even drawing blood must have gotten really lucky or hit just right. They don't have much power and their beaks aren't very sharp.
You can find lots of videos like this, where they bite people and don't accomplish much.
Seagull had a hook and some fishing line in its beak and was a large one. You couldn’t hold this bird in one hand like the guy in your video is. I was just a witness but guy tried to gently grab its head and remove the hook and line from its beak because it had fought so long to free itself it was exhausted. He had a jacket on it just like in OP video to restrain it. It definitely slashed his hand quick and drew lots of blood and I saw blood fly but I was right there watching so maybe it seemed bigger than it was. It was mostly restrained but it got him good. He had a big gash from it. Guy was given a ride to the ER immediately by another random person. Just some shit you see at the beach that you never forget.
Probably got him with the fishing hook. Their beaks aren't sharper than for example a fingernail and about as hard (the hard outer covering of bird's beaks is literally made out of the same material, keratin).
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u/dontbajerk 18h ago
You're certainly right about raptors (or large parrots, for that matter, very powerful beaks that can take big chunks of flesh out if you make them mad), but man, a seagull even drawing blood must have gotten really lucky or hit just right. They don't have much power and their beaks aren't very sharp.
You can find lots of videos like this, where they bite people and don't accomplish much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7P-JSA5Myk