We took out a seagull recently passing 200ft or so going out of a coastal uk airfield.Saw the thing out of the corner of my eye, thinking that was close. No adverse indications or bumps or anything. On arrival at a near continental airfield, stopping at the ramp, the wingtip looked different somehow. On closer inspection we could see the by now ill-defined form of a shredded body wrapped around the tip which had a rather large dent in it. 400 plus knots is clearly more than the bird could stand up in. It certainly lost its hair and feathers plus a limb or three and happily no serious damage sustained by ourselves.
