The name "seagull" implies the existence of landgulls, airgulls, and firegulls.

Seagulls aren't a thing. Just gulls.

I think a "landgull" would just be a pigeon

In light of the above, then, I hereby propose that squirrels get renamed to "treegulls."

It's all fun and games until the firegull nation attacks.

Wrong.

Seagulls imply the existence of Rivergulls, Lakegulls, Mountiangulls, Desertgulls, Forestgulls, Plaingulls, Valleygulls, Hillgulls, etc.

If there are armadillos, where are the legadillos?

If seagulls fly over the sea, then what flies over the bay?

Bagels.

also, spacegulls

I've seen many seagulls in my life.

But I've never seen any of the others.

And that's terrifying. Stay vigilant.

I used to study animal management and there was a lecturer who wrote his uni thesis on "seagulls" and any time he heard someone call them seagulls he'd shout down the hallway "They're herring gulls!"

Reminds me of a John Hodgman bit - we have ice hockey, field hockey, and air hockey, implying the existence of fire hockey.

Bay-gull. Bagel.

Long ago, the four gulls lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the fire gulls attacked...

We have Baygulls. They are tasty with cream cheese.

Heartgulls

Captain Planet Gull: "Give me those chips and I'll poop on you!"

You: "... don't you mean 'or' you will poop on me, not 'and'?"

Captain Planet Gull: ...

You: ...

Most of what we consider "seagulls" dont actually go out to sea. It's all lies.

I live in Colorado and there are gulls here, we are far from the sea.

Water-Gull. Earth-Gull. Fire-Gull. Air-Gull. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire-Gull Nation attacked.

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. My grandmother used to tell me stories about the old days, a time of peace when the Avatar kept balance between the Seagulls, Landgulls, Firegulls, and Airgulls. But that all changed when the Firegulls attacked.

Don't forget bay-gulls. They love fish, especially smoked salmon

You have to go pretty far back (to proto-Celtic, it looks like) to find a linguistic ancestor for the word "gull" that doesn't just mean "that specific bird."

But in proto-Celtic, it looks like "weilanna" probably meant "wailer." As in, "one who wails," though we don't know exactly what the suffix "-anna" means. A similar word in that language would've been "wailos," which even though it sounds similar seems to have been unrelated to our modern term "wolf," as it comes from a different proto-indo-european root.

Anyway, the word "gull" does refer to the sounds that it makes more than anything else. So in figuring out what a landgull, airgull, and firegull might be, we need to find something noisy. Or just something annoying, given the derisive connotation of "wail."

Edit: This is, of course, assuming that we're looking for different existing types of animals to be these creatures, rather than just (for instance) creating new, elemental forms of gulls; or "reskinning" seagulls with different elements; or inventing all-new animals to fill those roles.

It's Called seagull

It flies

With that logic, firegull are penguins.

Don't forget THA GOOD SHIP MERRY GULL!

I never knew that. I thought it went from beagle to seagull and then on to eagle…

Don't forget heartgulls. Everyone always forgets heart.

I love baygulls.

Surely they’re airgulls as they don’t live in the sea?

Or at the very least a rivergull

vol-gul.

Some live by the bay. They're baygulls.

Dumpster chickens

That's if it's specifying aquatic vs other elemental gulls. Perhaps it's specifying what type of body of water it's from instead. That'd imply oceangulls, rivergulls, bagels, pondgulls, lakegulls, etc

JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL!!!!!

I prefer earthgulls.

I’ve said the same about Ground Turkey for years.