Category: Updates

The figures from JNCC are alarming. Gull numbers are down again, but urban ones are up – dash, no chance of some peace this summer then? Who knows what today’s schoolboys know, but maybe we…

Urban gulls shift the timing of foraging behaviour based on human activities, so when food resources become locally abundant, these resourcefull feathered beasts fly and feed

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In 2023 I recorded gull nests in the locality. Gull nests are easier to see from a good vantage point or from a height. The counts show a concentration around where I live – as…

Several years back (May 2020) this is the reply I got from ELC, which was classified as an Freedom of Information request, so I had to pay £17.50. The information would have taken almost no…

So, it seems that Gull-Speak is not hard to learn. These fascinating birds really mean what they say. In a few weeks time they will regale us with a chorus of encouragement as their young…