Gull-human interactions in an urban population of Herring Gulls Larus argentatus and Lesser Black-backed Gulls Larus fuscus | tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… | BTO's Bird Study | #ornithology

Urban #gulls face trade-offs btw advantages of breeding at lower densities (with lower intraspecific interactions & disease transmission risks) & disadvantages of having a low nutrition anthropogenic diet. doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13… compares multiple proxies for health #ornothology

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Next step will be to understand why populations differ in their response to humans. Avoidance of approaching humans was unrelated to presence of human food subsidies (r=0.14), but may increase with how far they kept from humans (r=-0.53)

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Across sites gulls differed in their distances from humans over which they tolerated being approached. While at some sites gulls tolerated humans approaching from a considerable distance, at others they always avoided approaching humans

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GullsEye encourages volunteers to enter observations on an App. We have learnt #gulls behave more unsettled and come closer to humans when food is involved. Volunteers also approached gulls to within 4m and recorded whether they tolerated this

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The Gulls Eye project gla.ac.uk/research/az/gu… aims to better understand human-gull interactions. Why may your chips get snatched by a gull but not others’? Answers can help to find solutions to this
#citizenscience @K_Herborn Alexander Wilson

A short thread on fraud: on Thursday evening around 8pm I got called by the fraud detection squad at my bank and told I’d been a victim of fraud with attempts made on my bank account. I asked how I knew he was for real snd he told me to google the lost and stolen cards number...

Genus cartoon from Will McPhail.
Shared with me by Prof Garry Marvin, who is not on Twitter (on balance, probably for the best...)
GullsEye Madeleine Goumas @JulietteCaverly Helen Nakielny Herre de Bondt Prof. Angela Cassidy Virginia Thomas

I’m running a project on #pigeons across the UK with Will Smith and we need YOUR help!

If you’d like to get involved (you do!), then:

1. Read this guide: docs.google.com/document/d/1Oj…
2. Take a photo of a pigeon flock
3. Complete this form: formfaca.de/sm/wsFx24YYP

Please donate to save this bird charity @charitybirdaid from closure. #SaveBirdAid 👇

Also featured on BBC Scotland LANDWARD: gull decline & ecology with Ruedi Nager of @IBAHCM. Appreciating that gulls are having to adapt to an increasingly human dominated & impacted land & sea-scape. #LoveGulls #gulls #nature #birds #Landward #Scotland
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The GullsEye project made it onto 📺talking about 'There is no such thing as a seagull'! #teamgull #gulls

Katherine Herborn and Ruedi Nager (GullsEye) presented research on human-gull interactions, including public perception of gulls: twitter.com/GullsEyeProjec… 🕊️
#BOUasm21 #seabirds

6. #BOUasm21 #BREAK3 Global-scale comparative analysis with before-after-control-impact ( #BACI ) study design across species & regions #GARRN will inspire innovative #management strategies for threatened raptors. We welcome collective expertise of #raptor researchers & enthusiasts