{"id":578918,"date":"2026-05-11T23:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578918\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:35:07","slug":"inverness-gulls-are-waking-care-home-residents-and-dive-bombing-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/578918\/","title":{"rendered":"Inverness gulls are &#8216;waking care home residents and dive-bombing kids&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland&#8217;s nature body, NatureScot, provided \u00a320,000 to support the development of plans for Inverness and Nairn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officials said the gull management plan would recognise the challenges posed by gulls and the birds&#8217; protected status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The report listed problems including:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reports of care home residents experiencing disturbed sleep due to early morning gull calls, particularly during the breeding season<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Primary schools stopping children from eating outdoors due to aggressive gull behaviour, and secondary school pupils being swooped on outside food shops<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Complaints from people about their neighbours feeding gulls and attracting large numbers of birds<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The plan includes awareness campaigns to discourage people from feeding gulls and new public bins that are harder for the birds to pull rubbish from.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other ideas include using kites, flags and audio deterrents to put gulls off from nesting on rooftops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland&#8217;s nature body, NatureScot, provided \u00a320,000 to support the development of plans for Inverness and Nairn. Officials said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-578918","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\/578918","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=578918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}