..."It might go without saying that ornithology doesn’t typically stir such passions. “Most of the time what we do nobody gives a damn about,” George says. But he began receiving letters from LGBT people who were moved by the discovery. “They were very delighted.”
....The Hunts found that 14% of the gull pairs on the island were comprised of two females. One telltale sign of a lesbian nest was a “supernormal clutch,” meaning more eggs than a single female could possibly produce.
“They had fertile eggs, which means that females were consorting with males at some point,” George says. But the birds appeared to use the males only for procreation, returning to each other to raise their families.
...And once paired, the lesbian couples stuck together. Gulls are known monogamists. “The female-female pairs stayed together from one year to the next. Those that had viable eggs were perfectly able to raise them,” George says."....
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