{"id":556300,"date":"2026-04-29T04:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556300\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T04:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:50:08","slug":"eyemouth-gull-ranger-to-tackle-conflict-between-humans-and-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556300\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyemouth gull ranger to tackle conflict between humans and birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The ranger will also be conducting citizen science surveys to try to get an accurate picture of the number of gulls nesting in Eyemouth town, and to identify any hotspots of gull activity,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There have been a number of incidents over the last few years in Eyemouth, where gulls have taken food from people and on occasion caused injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This has quickly become not only a local issue but is widely discussed and reported nationally and has become a talking point for politicians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the conversation could sometimes become &#8220;quite heated&#8221; between those who advocate conservation and those who &#8220;see them as a pest&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Through the gull ranger position and wider project, we hope to raise awareness and change perceptions of gulls, finding solutions to allow us to live alongside this iconic coastal bird,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The ranger will also be conducting citizen science surveys to try to get an accurate picture of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-556300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556300","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=556300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}