British 'Seagull Boy' soared to victory, winning the European Championship Gull Screeching for a second time in Belgium. His pitch-perfect seagull imitations have baffled judges and entertained audiences, proving seagull screeching is the oddest path to internet fame.

Dressed head-to-toe in a seagull costume, 10-year-old Cooper Wallace wowed the De Panne crowd, but it was his origin story—a bird bite that launched a viral sensation—that turned him into internet folklore. Next year’s “gull screaming” showdown is already stirring European buzz.