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Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, were birds that were typically a coastal or inland species, but also ventured far out to sea. These seabirds were typically medium to large in size, usually grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They typically have harsh wailing or squawking calls; stout, longish bills; short legs and webbed feet.

History[]

Some time after the pirate crewmembers from the Royal Fortune fought and killed each other over the treasure of Dead Man's Cove, a lonely beach littered with the skeletal remains, with one being a decaying Pirate Captain standing impaled on a rocky outcropping, a sword having been run through his chest, with a seagull squawking from its nest in the Pirate Captain's hat.^[1][2]

Seagulls occasionally appeared throughout young Captain Jack Sparrow's adventures as a teenage stowaway. One night, as the Barnacle made its way through the Gulf of Mexico toward New Orleans, a lone, lost gull cried once overhead.^[3] Many years later, when Jack's pirate ship, the Black Pearl, made port in Tortuga after an unsuccessful treasure hunt, one crewmen deserted, claiming that Jack was barmy as a seagull.^[4] Later, when the Pearl sailed on a quest for the Shadow Gold, the newly recruited pirate Catastrophe Shane tried to practice with a pistol, but the crew quickly took it from him after he shot a barrel of ale, the ocean, and the air above a very startled seagull.^[5]

During Lord Cutler Beckett's war against piracy, Beckett's flagship, the HMS Endeavour, was in pursuit of the Black Pearl somewhere on the ocean until the Endeavour crew spotted a flock of seagulls congregating around something floating in the water. The tower of birds stretched up into the sky, and their wings flapped as they circled and dove toward the floating object, a dead body tied to a barrel with a note that bore the symbol of the East India Trading Company. As Lieutenant Greitzer pointed Lord Beckett at the distant horizon, where there was another tower of circling seagulls attracted to a corpse, another in a breadcrumb trail left by Will Turner for Beckett so the Endeavour could follow the Pearl to Shipwreck Cove. Over the next few hours, as the Endeavour crew continued to collect bodies on the main deck, the seagulls attempted to feast on them. Seagulls were still feasting as the Endeavour and the Flying Dutchman were moored alongside each other, and Davy Jones had been summoned to Lord Beckett's ship.^[6][7]

As the Queen Anne's Revenge raced across the ocean during the quest for the Fountain of Youth, it was accompanied by the sounds of surf against the hull and the sight of seagulls flying overhead, a sound that normally would have been music to Jack Sparrow's ears until he heard Gunner's whip biting into the flesh of deckhands who weren't working hard enough.^[8] Later, when the crewmen aboard the HMS Providence were getting killed by mermaids, despite Lieutenant Commander Theodore Groves saying that the men didn't sound dead, Captain Hector Barbossa insisted that he only heard seagulls nesting with his pistol aiming at Groves. As Barbossa asked Groves what he heard, at gunpoint, with the wails of death growing louder, Groves stared at the pistol and answered seagulls nesting.^[9]

The haunted waters of the Devil's Triangle were full of many dead creatures brought back to life as reanimated corpses. When the Spanish Navy galleon the Silent Mary ended up trapped in the Triangle, she was slowly transformed into a ghost ship, a nightmarish vision always surrounded with a flock of undead seabirds. Several decades after her imprisonment, the Silent Mary and her crew of pirate hunters managed to return to the Seven Seas as ghosts. The undead Spaniards continued their original mission, hunting pirates on the high seas, constantly followed by the undead seagulls. When a British Royal Navy warship, the Monarch, entered the Triangle, it was surrounded by the seagulls before the undead Spaniards themselves boarded the vessel. Later, after Jack Sparrow traded his compass for a bottle of rum, his worst fear, death, would come true, therefore releasing Salazar and his crew from their imprisonment within the Triangle. The undead seagulls were the first to leave the cave as it fell apart.^[10]

When the Silent Mary began to pick off the pirate Hector Barbossa's fleet, the seagulls accompanied and aided them. When they destroyed one ship, the Red Dragon, the crew sent out a single seagull to the ship. One member of the Dragon's crew was shocked by the undead bird, and, thinking he was seeing things, splashed some water over his face. When he looked back, the bird was gone. Relieved, he turned back to the barrel of water from which he was drinking, only for the seagull to reappear and attack him. Moments afterwards, the entire ship was surrounded by the undead gulls and devoured by the Mary.^[10]

Later, as several undead sharks were sent out by Salazar to dispose of Jack, Henry Turner and Carina Smyth, the undead seagulls were present aboard the Mary, cawing loudly as the large skeletal fish entered the water near Hangman's Bay. During the Race to the Black rock island, as the Silent Mary attacked the Black Pearl, its undead seagulls surrounded both ships. They were also present as Salazar possessed Henry Turner in order to walk on dry land and defeat Jack Sparrow, but remained aboard the Silent Mary as he and his crew travelled to Poseidon's Tomb. After the entire crew of the Mary were freed from their curse by Henry and Carina, the seagulls most likely did as well, becoming free to roam the skies once again.^[10]

Behind the scenes[]

• Seagulls first appeared in Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean in 1967. As the bateaux glide by a lonely beach littered with the skeletal remains of pirates, a seagull squawks at guests from its nest in a dead Pirate Captain's hat in Dead Man's Cove.^[1] Although seagulls appeared in most Pirates of the Caribbean media, the name "seagull" first appeared in the 2005 book Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies by Jason Surrell.^[2] The name "gull" first appeared in the 2006 book Jack Sparrow: The Age of Bronze by Rob Kidd.^[3]
• In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's screenplay draft for At World's End, seagulls were identified as the birds attracted to the dead bodies tied to barrels that served as Will Turner's breadcrumb trail left for Lord Cutler Beckett and the Endeavour to follow. A seagull pecks at the man's ear, flies away with the prize, pursued by others. Later, as the Flying Dutchman is moored alongside the Endeavour, squawking seagulls circle above the latter, diving down to the barrels on deck.^[11] However, seagulls weren't identified by name in the junior novelization or the film itself.^[6][7]
• Seagulls (mostly spelled as "sea gull") appeared in Tim Powers' novel On Stranger Tides, which was used for the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film.^[12]
• In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's screenplay draft for On Stranger Tides, as mermaids attack the HMS Providence, Captain Hector Barbossa held Leftenant Commander Groves at gunpoint with his pistol, asking what he and King George Augustus heard. As the wails of death grow louder, Groves's response being seagulls nesting. Gillette added that it could be pelicans. Barbossa turns his pistol on Gillette, thinks better of pulling the trigger and then trains it instead on Joshamee Gibbs.^[13] The scene between Barbossa and Gillette was omitted in the final cut of the film.^[9]

Appearances[]

• Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean (First appearance)
• Disney Parks Presents: Pirates of the Caribbean
• Pirates of the Caribbean (Little Golden Book)
• Jack Sparrow: The Age of Bronze (First identified as gull)
• Jack Sparrow: Silver
• Jack Sparrow: Poseidon's Peak
• Jack Sparrow: The Tale of Billy Turner and Other Stories
• Legends of the Brethren Court: The Caribbean (Mentioned only)
• Tears of the Goddess
• The Shanghai Tigers
• Mother of Water (Mentioned only)
• The Return of Jack Sparrow
• The Eyes Have It!‎
• Pirates of the Caribbean: A Storm at Sea
• Pirates of the Caribbean Online
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (junior novelization)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: The Movie Storybook
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Penguin Readers)
• Quiet Life
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Mentioned only)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (junior novelization)
• The Secret of Galileo's Diary
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Novelization
  • Pirates des Caraïbes : La Vengeance de Salazar
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales: Movie Graphic Novel
• LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game (Non-canonical appearance)
• Sea of Thieves: A Pirate's Life (Non-canonical appearance)

Sources[]

• Disneyland: From the Pirates of the Caribbean to the World of Tomorrow
• Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies (First identified as seagull)

External links[]

• Gull on Wikipedia

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