# Is there a scientific name for fear of being \*\*\*\* on by seaguls? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 13, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-scientific-name-for-fear-of-being-on-by-seaguls/254981 "2004-07-13T23:46:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-scientific-name-for-fear-of-being-on-by-seaguls/254981/1 "2004-07-13T23:46:11Z")
All the other people out and about are exposed to the risk of being pooped on by a seagul so why do I feel like I am the only one who thinks about it constantly and worries. Sometimes put my hood up if I know one is going to fly above me. In all my 25 years of life I have been ‘hit’ once and it was a pigeon, and it was barely noticable. I was able to clean it off before anyone saw. And years earlier a friend was beneath a particularly large release from an unidentified bird (it was probably a pigeon because we were stood next to a building at the time). So why, with one hit in 25 years, do I fear it every day? ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-scientific-name-for-fear-of-being-on-by-seaguls/254981/2 "2004-07-13T23:49:30Z")
laruscoprophobia? ---
**Author:** ![Cockatiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cockatiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cockatiel)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-scientific-name-for-fear-of-being-on-by-seaguls/254981/3 "2004-07-13T23:52:47Z")
Let’s see…the fear of, er, fecal matter is coprophobia and the fear of birds is ornithophobia, so the fear of being pooped on by a bird is ornithocoprophobia? 😃 Source: Phobialist.com ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-scientific-name-for-fear-of-being-on-by-seaguls/254981/4 "2004-07-14T00:51:55Z")
Thanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-scientific-name-for-fear-of-being-on-by-seaguls/254981/5 "2004-07-14T01:06:18Z")
Someone will be along shortly to voice their disdain towards the colloquial term ‘seagulls’, pointing out that they are ‘just _gulls_’. We call 'em ShiteHawks here. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-scientific-name-for-fear-of-being-on-by-seaguls/254981/6 "2004-07-14T01:11:37Z")
Seagull, Gull, Flying Rectum, same differences 😉 FYI I live near the sea so the ones in question are sea-gulls. But in my heart their name is ‘Bastards’ ---
**Author:** ![Jplacer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@Jplacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jplacer)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-scientific-name-for-fear-of-being-on-by-seaguls/254981/7 "2004-07-14T05:18:15Z")
A gull took a dump on my grandmother’s head. According to her, she got a virus from the bird shit and it caused some of her hair to fall out. ---
**Author:** ![janeslogin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@janeslogin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janeslogin)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-scientific-name-for-fear-of-being-on-by-seaguls/254981/8 "2016-03-24T18:42:20Z")
Why is it not simply “guano”? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-scientific-name-for-fear-of-being-on-by-seaguls/254981/9 "2016-03-24T19:14:36Z")
Old threads in GQ should only be bumped to add new factual information. Since this doesn’t do so, I’m closing this. Colibri General Questions Moderator