Seagulls and other wild birds
Why you shouldn't feed the gulls
- Our food is not good for them. Feeding any wild birds or animals with human food affects their health.
- It encourages them to come further inland into our towns, where they may nest and cause potential damage to buildings (and where some people may consider them to be a nuisance).
- Gulls associate people with food, they can't tell the difference between someone who intends to feed them and someone who doesn't.
- If gulls attempt to snatch food from you or your family, it can be frightening, particularly for small children.
- Wild animals and birds can carry diseases such as e-coli and salmonella.
- Gulls are very protective of their young and may attack people they perceive as a danger.
- We need to break their habits and encourage them to hunt in their natural habitat, by limiting their access to our food.
- Throwing food is classed as littering.
