Can seagulls suffer from vertigo?
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Virtigo is a balance dissorder,that can also cause nausea and is often caused by infection or other problem involving the inner ear\nin humans.\n\nBirds can get viral diseases of the ear that can cause loss of balance.  I guess this woudl be a form of Vertigo. So yes seagulls coud suffer from vertigo.
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Technically, there is no such a thing as a "seagull." They're actually just gulls. As a group, they don't live exclusively at, near, in or over the sea. There are some species (like ring-biled gulls) that are more common inland than at the sea. They find their way to large open areas (such as parking lots and school yards) by flying over them. You can see a lot of land from that height, so it's not hard to pick out nice spots to hang. They are not confused into thinking it's water, they just know by now that large parking lots are good eatin'.
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Inner ear\n    * benign paroxysmal postural vertigo\n    * labyrinthitis\n    * Ménière's disease\n    * perilymphatic fistula\n    * neurinoma of the acoustic nerve\n    * vestibular neuronitis\nEye\n    * new glasses\n    * optical illusions\nNeck\n    * arthritis\n    * cervical vertigo\n    * Whiplash and other strains\nCentral nervous system\n    * arteria basilaris syndrome\n    * concussion\n    * migraine\n    * multiple sclerosis\n    * orthostatic hypotension\n    * stroke\n    * peripheral neuropathy\nBreathing\n    * Extreme intake of helium\n    * Hyperventilation\nOther causes\n    * AIDS\n    * Low blood pressure and /or hyperventilation (often situational), such as emotionally-induced "fainting". Some persons may have deliberately or subconsciously "learnt" to induce such "dizziness" symptoms or complaints. Further medical tests may be needed to determine whether there is indeed a true medical cause. If the "dizziness" is psychosomatically linked, then cognitive and "play" therapies may introduce other ways of coping with strange, stressful and unusual situations.
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The Lark, who nests in what's left of meadows will feign injury to draw you away from her nest.  The Lapwing, the Tern and several ground nesting birds behave similarly.  It's very common near wind blown coastal areas where trees are rare and the birds through necessity have to nest on the ground that it occurs most commonly.
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Although the "balance" hypothesis sounds logical, experiments have determined that the head-bob of pigeons is rather related to vision.\n\nI'll quote myself (from the answer at the bottom link):\nHead bobbing has been hypothesized to be related to vision.\nWhen a bird's head is still, the images can form on the retina without the blur of motion. \nNow you're thinking: but the head is not still, it's bobbing! \nHowever, this is a visual effect, and in reality the head is keeping immobile, while the body moves. Head bobbing increases the stillness of the head during walking, running and landing. \nHead bobbing is not caused by an anatomical link of feet to neck or something like that; instead, it's synchronized with the movements of the feet, and although this could and has suggested a biomechanical function (balance, like our arm-swinging movements during walking), experiments have proven that head motions are determined by visual stimuli rather than biomechanical or inner-ear stimulation. \n\nThis is from a research paper:\nhttp://www.biomotionlab.ca/Text/TrojeFrost00.pdf
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It could be vertigo, I had that after an accident, it is due to the inner ear. There is medication for it.
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Hello-Have your friend visit an Ear,Nose and Throat doctor.  Sounds like she may have a condition called BPPN.  That stands for Benign Proxysmal Positional Nystagmus,  basically, vertigo.  Anyway, an ENT may have some exercises she can do to relieve some of the symptoms.  Hope that helps.
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serc 1tablet every 6hours\n action: anti-vertigo
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Vertigo, sometimes called a headrush, is a major symptom of a balance disorder. It is the sensation of spinning while the body is stationary with respect to the earth or surroundings. With the eyes shut, there will be a sensation that the body is in movement, called subjective vertigo; if the eyes are open, the surroundings will appear to move past the field of vision, called objective vertigo.\n\nThe effects may be slight. It may cause nausea or, if severe, may give rise to difficulty with standing and walking. Vertigo is usually associated with a problem in the inner ear balance mechanisms (vestibular system), in the brain, or with the nerve connections between these two organs. The most common cause is benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, or BPPV. Vertigo can be a symptom of an underlying harmless cause, such as in BPPV or it can suggest more serious problems. These include drug toxicities, strokes or tumors (though these are much less common than BPPV).\n\nVertigo is typically classified into one of two categories depending on the location of the damaged vestibular pathway. These are peripheral or central vertigo. Each category has a distinct set of characteristics and associated findings.\n\nPeripheral vertigo: The lesions, or the damaged areas, affect the inner ear or the vestibular division of the acoustic (CN VIII) nerve. Vertigo that is peripheral in origin tends to be felt as more severe than central vertigo, intermittent in timing, always associated with nystagmus in the horizontal plane and occasionally hearing loss or tinnitus (ringing of the ears). \nPeripheral vertigo can be caused by BPPV, Ménière's disease or acute vestibular neuronitis. Peripheral vertigo, compared to the central type, though subjectively felt as more severe, is usually from a less serious cause. \n\nCentral vertigo: The lesions in central vertigo involve the brainstem vestibular nerve nuclei. Central vertigo is typically described as constant in timing, less severe in nature and occasionally with nystagmus that can be multi-directional. Associated symptoms include motor or sensory deficits, dysarthria (slurred speech) or ataxia. \nCauses include things such as migraines, multiple sclerosis or tumors. Less commonly, strokes, seizures, trauma or infections can cause also central vertigo. \n\nVertigo should not be confused with dizziness. Dizziness is an unpleasant feeling of light-headedness, giddiness or fuzziness often accompanied by nausea. \nVertigo is often incorrectly used to describe a fear of heights. \nVertigo is often experienced when breathing helium, as a result of decreased oxygen flow to the brain.
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It is an ailment that works much the same way as vertigo, (I am not sure that I am spelling that right.)  The disease that Micheal Jackson reports that he has.  The pigment in the skin cells is activated however instead of the other way around.
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Yes, if that is the direction they are flying. If the wind changes direction though they don't change. So not ALL the time as the question implies.
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Sure.\n\nDizziness is regulated by tiny hairs in the middle of your ear.  So if a blind person spins around, they would sense the movement and get dizzy.\n\nThere's also a ton of other reasons why people get dizzy that don't necessarily have to do with sight.\n\nRegards,\nRyan
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The shape of their feet and the way they feed.  A sea gull will have webbed feet for swimming but are also carrion feeders which mean they have to walk on shore.  A sparrow has clawed feet and must hop from branch to branch.
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http://vertigo.hsrl.rutgers.edu/ug/shell_help.html
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You are feeling the fluid shifting in your middle ear.  Its the part in your head that senses motion.  It "feels" when you accelerate, and decelerate in the three axes of your body and it gives your brain the information so that it can compensate for balance so you  dont fall on your keyster!\n\nIt can be played tricks on though, as a pilot, we experiece g-forces that lie to us about our position and we have to rely on our instruments.. and we have to discipline ourselves to NOT trust our middle ear.. that could lead to a syndrome called vertigo, and its deadly to a pilot if left unchecked.
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Balance is our true sixth sense - it enables us to sense how our bodies are moving around in the world and keep us upright. There are only two kinds of animal that spend their whole lives performing the tricky balancing act of walking on two legs – humans and some flightless birds, like ostriches.\n\nBalancing can be a deceptively complex business. Nigel Marven joins stunt co-ordinator Marc Cass for a dramatic drive and experiences how the balance organs let us know how we're being yanked around and even turned upside down.\n\nHelp from the eyes \nFor really fine balance, we need our eyes. They help us to work out exactly what the body is doing relative to the outside world. A troupe of acrobats at the Circus School in San Francisco illustrate this when they perform a human tower in darkness.\n\nNigel reveals why spinning round in circles makes you dizzy. And, under the guidance of Dr Ros Davies from the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, he discovers why drinking alcohol makes it hard to walk in a straight line and can make your head spin.\n\nOur sense of balance is so complex that even if all components are working fine – the balance organs, the feedback from our limbs, and our eyes – if there there's any disagreement about what's going on, the result can be unpleasant. Dr Frank Golden of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution explains that sea sickness is caused when the central nervous system receives conflicting messages from these three systems.
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Yes, seagulls are bigger than doves.  Most seagulls are white while doves are brown to gray.