Yes I am going slightly bonkers but then it is the weather. One of our junior games has already been postponed through "pitch is buggered!".
There are no seagulls. Certainly plenty of seagull like birds exist but they are sea birds of the Laridae family and mostly related to terns, auks, skimmers and so on. So Brighton's seagulls are made from a myth. Nevertheless the seagulls make a nice shape for a badge and form the base of their website
www.seagulls.co.uk
No club has its nickname as its website. Originally known as the Dolphins, the club's nickname changed to Seagulls in 1977 and "changed direction" on the badge in 2011. The chant "seagulls, seagulls" challenges local derby rivals, Crystal Palace's "Eagles".
Robins "perch up" quite a bit; Wrexham AFC (once a robin, but changed to Red Wrex the Dragon-more Welsh!), Bristol City,
Swindon Town
and Cheltenham Town (see badge below) who change their club colours from ruby red to red and white, more Robin like and therefore adopted the nickname.
AFC Walsall, now known as the Sadlers due to the local " leather industry", were known as the Walsall Town Swifts until the 1890s when they lost the words "Town Swifts".
Other birds? Can you name the clubs?
Bantams, Bluebirds, Canaries, Eagles (also Armagh City!), Gulls, Magpies, Owls, Peacocks, Swans, Throstles (also a Song Thrush).
Finally, local Penistone Chruch FC, sports Martlets on it's badge; the Martlet, a small martin or swallow like bird featured in heraldry and myth. Note the county arms of Sussex.
The French word for a similar bird is "merlette" and is part of the coat of arms for Arundel Castle, in Sussex, originally named "Hirondelle" after its early French connection.
Dundalk FC carries the martlets too, dating from the town's medieval history. Martlets also may be found on crests at Worcester College Oxford, Pembroke Coll, Cambridge, Bromsgrove School and Mill Hill School, to name a few.
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