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Steven Seagull’s cake doughnut

COMPILED BY NIMI KURIAN

Photo: S. Subramanium

Tea time? Fly over to Super 8.

Steven Seagull has returned to the Super 8 motel in Duluth, Minnesota, U.S., looking for his customary cake doughnut. Year after year, the ring-billed gull has tapped at the lobby’s front door until a staff member gives him the doughnut, said general manager Jodi Chambers.

“If it’s quiet in the lobby, you can hear him tapping on it,” Chambers said. “But if we’re busy, he starts squawking like crazy.” Chambers said she’s sure it’s the same bird because he behaves the same way every year. For one thing, Steven chases away other gulls looking for his food. “We don’t feed them if there’s more than one, and he’s figured that out,” Chambers said.

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