A herring gull drops a sea urchin in eastern Quebec.

Uni to Go

Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, Québec

What's a bird to do when there's fresh sea urchin all around, but no sushi chef to crack them? For the herring gulls, it's as easy as grabbing an urchin, going up in the air about twenty feet, and letting it drop onto the rocks below for some instant, all-you-can-eat uni. When I was in Minganie on this shoot, a local fisherman came by the island we were on and kindly offered us (the humans, not the birds) a few of the urchins he'd caught that day. After trying them myself, I understood why the gulls go to such lengths to eat them!

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