O/T SEAGULLS (CULL THE GULL)

TANGERINETOWERPOWER

TANGERINETOWERPOWER

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This may not be politically correct but these are rats with wings and we really need a Cull The Gull campaign to stop this vermin from overrunning our streets. They are predatory and kill any other species that get in their way and the chicks that can't yet fly are a proper nuisance. Time for the council to step in to Cull and exterminate the vermin. I suppose we can leave a few for aesthetic purposes but there are way too many at the moment.
 
TANGERINETOWERPOWER said:
This may not be politically correct but these are rats with wings and we really need a Cull The Gull campaign to stop this vermin from overrunning our streets. They are predatory and kill any other species that get in their way and the chicks that can't yet fly are a proper nuisance. Time for the council to step in to Cull and exterminate the vermin. I suppose we can leave a few for aesthetic purposes but there are way too many at the moment.
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No we don't! Believe it or not all UK gull species are in decline. There's been some adaption to environments populated by humans and their lazy food wasting ways but that's no reason to knock off gulls. We'd be no better than Joffrey and his hen harrier murdering cohorts!
Phew, glad I got that one off my chest.
 
Mark_GT said:
No we don't! Believe it or not all UK gull species are in decline. There's been some adaption to environments populated by humans and their lazy food wasting ways but that's no reason to knock off gulls. We'd be no better than Joffrey and his hen harrier murdering cohorts!
Phew, glad I got that one off my chest.
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IF you lived Next to some eccentric old biddy that fed the bastard things every day like I did I think you would realise that they are ** totall vermin (and by the way I am a bird lover ,had birds all my life )and love all wild birds ,,but I agree it's time to do something positive about these vermin!
 
Spent years working offshore with them. They would arrive and shit and puke all over the place, tried everything from Hawks to sirens, to lasers. Protected so can’t cull them. But I agree they are filthy rats.
 
Scaramanga said:
Spent years working offshore with them. They would arrive and shit and puke all over the place, tried everything from Hawks to sirens, to lasers. Protected so can’t cull them. But I agree they are filthy rats.
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Hawks? Bit over the top?

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We walked along the prom before the game yesterday and the place was full of baby gulls, and the steps & steel barriers on top of the sea wall were covered in sloppy dung. We had to keep hold of our grandson as they were swooping and I swear they were trying to steal him, the dirty, child thieving, cannibalistic, barstewards.
Import lots of hawks, they'll soon sort the filthy flying rats out.
 
Mark_GT said:
No we don't! Believe it or not all UK gull species are in decline. There's been some adaption to environments populated by humans and their lazy food wasting ways but that's no reason to knock off gulls. We'd be no better than Joffrey and his hen harrier murdering cohorts!
Phew, glad I got that one off my chest.
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“In decline?”
Do you have evidence of that because there are millions of them all over the place.
 
Eternaloptimist said:
“In decline?”
Do you have evidence of that because there are millions of them all over the place.
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Here you go.

Herring gull in particular (which is usually the villain in most "killer seagull" stories) is in sharp decline. You would have to be very unlucky to be attacked by a Great or lesser black backed gull, also any of our smaller species suc as Black headed, Little, Mediterranean gull or Kittiwake:

publications.naturalengland.org.uk

Population estimates for urban and natural nesting Herring Gull Larus argentatus and Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus in England - JNCC21_02

Joint Nature Conservation Committee was commissioned by Natural England to produce two reports that present provisional estimates of Herring Gull and Lesser Black-backed Gull populations in England and how these estimates were calculated. The accompanying report on Access to Evidence is linked...
publications.naturalengland.org.uk publications.naturalengland.org.uk
www.theguardian.com

War on urban gulls may be deadly blow to species in decline

Seagulls are pests to city-dwellers, but the RSPB says their numbers are falling and high-tech control methods will only make this worse
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

For balance I've also posted some lies and bollix from those trustworthy souls at the Spectator magazine:
www.spectator.co.uk

Seagulls don’t deserve to be protected

Thousands of city dwellers have to live with the noise and mess of urban gull breeding colonies. Often dubbed ‘flying rats’ because they gorge on garbage, gulls are protected by Natural England — a public body sponsored by the government — on the grounds that they are supposedly endangered...
www.spectator.co.uk www.spectator.co.uk

PS I appreciate this is an argument I will never win. Like when I ask dog walkers not to run their dogs through the roosting birds on the beach, or bird photographers not to get too close etc.
 
Leave them alone they are part of seaside tradition.
Likewise I walked down the prom yesterday and nothing but litter and beer bottles even though there was litter bins around.
Gulls are like refugees and come to towns as there is little fish out there. Even ships arent. allowed to. dump food waste.
We would soon miss the familiar cry of the gull if they were culled.
 
Basically comes down to whether you are an animal lover or a cold hearted b’stard willing to kill anything that gets in your way. 😉

Or you could hire more turtles * 🐢



* Family Guy reference
 
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Davepick said:
Why is there a law against killing them?
There are millions of them.
They'll never be extinct.
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In the UK, the species, when taken as a whole, is declining significantly across the country, despite an increase in urban areas. The UK European herring gull population has decreased by 50% in 25 years[27] and it is protected by law: since January 2010, Natural England has allowed lethal control only with a specific individual licence that is available only in limited circumstances.[28] Natural England made the change following a public consultation[29] in response to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in 2009 placing the species on its 'Red List' of threatened bird species, affording it the highest possible conservation status.[30](Previously, killing the species was allowed under a general licence obtainable by authorised persons (e.g. landowners or occupiers) under certain circumstances (e.g. to prevent serious damage to crops or livestock, to prevent disease, or to preserve public health or safety) without requiring additional permission beyond the general licence.[27])

The European herring gull is an increasingly common roof-nesting bird in urban areas of the UK, and many individual birds show little fear of humans. The Clean Air Act 1956 forbade the burning of refuse at landfill sites, providing the European herring gull with a regular and plentiful source of food. As a direct result, European herring gull populations in Britain skyrocketed. Faced with a lack of space at their traditional colonies, the gulls ventured inland in search of new breeding grounds. Dwindling fish stocks in the seas around Britain may also have been a significant factor in the gulls' move inland.

That last sentence is why they are abundant on our coastal streets
 
Recently, on the Yorkshire coast, scientists say they have discovered lots of sea bird corpses in colonies and on beaches that appear to have starved to death. The initial theory is that global warming is causing the upper level of the sea (say, the top fathom) to warm significantly leading to sand eels and sprats spending more time swimming deeper in cooler water. And so being too deep for the birds to catch easily; these small fish are their main diet. Whether the immediate direct cause is global warming or just “summer” is open to debate.
 
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After visiting Scarborough and Whitby in the summer I reckon they've a worse problem than us.
Years ago on the Fylde they used to cull them annually, one of my mates did it one year, they threw doped food around then came back clubbed them over the head and bagged them up.
Not been done for a number of years due to EEC rules but nothing stopping us culling them now.
 
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