{"id":142389,"date":"2025-09-17T01:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142389\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T01:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T01:16:07","slug":"inverness-summit-to-look-at-problems-posed-by-urban-gulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/142389\/","title":{"rendered":"Inverness summit to look at problems posed by urban gulls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gulls, like all wild birds, have long been protected by law.<\/p>\n

But last February, NatureScot, made the rules around controlling gulls stricter, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gulls, along with other sea birds, have been falling in numbers.<\/p>\n

RSPB says the UK’s gull population has declined by more than 60% since 1970, with overfishing and climate change among the suspected causes.<\/p>\n

Bird flu has also claimed thousands of sea birds<\/a>, including gulls.<\/p>\n

Measures local authorities can use to control urban gulls when they become a problem include removing old nesting material.<\/p>\n

Also using bird scaring devices such as spikes and reflective material to discourage gulls from nesting on roofs.<\/p>\n

A trained bird of prey patrolled the skies above Inverness earlier this year<\/a> as part of efforts to scare away gulls from parts of the city.<\/p>\n

Inverness Business Improvement District (Bid) arranged for Angel, a four-year-old gyrfalcon, to fly over the city centre for about three times a week between March and April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gulls, like all wild birds, have long been protected by law. But last February, NatureScot, made the rules…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-142389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}