A British seaside town is being tortured by hostile seagulls that have actually taken an ice-cream from a kid in a pram.
The birds have actually begun assaulting citizens and travelers in Rhyl, a north Wales seaside resort.
A female has actually even been left bloodied after an encounter with the seagulls.
A £20,000 task to lower the variety of the birds in Rhyl has actually been aborted, after it was opposed by animal rights advocates.
Rhyl was just recently called the worst seaside town by the Telegraph
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A divide has actually formed in the town in between those who “really care about seagulls” and others who call them “flying rats”.
One Rhyl citizen, who asked to stay confidential, said there were a lot of gulls in Rhyl and neighbouring Kinmel Bay in Conwy.
“They are like flying rats. I saw one swoop down and take an ice cream from a child in a pram. When I lived in Kinmel Bay a woman was making her way to the local doctor’s surgery and her face was covered in blood. One of the seagulls had attacked her. She had a head injury,” he informed WalesOnline.
He continued: “These creatures create quite a lot of hassle and I can’t understand how people can defend them. I’ve been told they won’t be reducing numbers in Rhyl because so many residents oppose it and the council take notice of that but they are not listening to people like me who don’t like the creatures. It’s about time something was done about them.”
This follows Rhyl was called as the worst seaside resort in the UK by the Telegraph.
The paper ranked a series of “classic resorts” throughout the nation, which saw the North Wales resort being available in last location.
The Telegraph said the town was an example of “how not to do things” and it granted Rhyl a rating of 5 out of 100.
Three years back, the Rhyl Business Improvement District revealed a plan that would have attempted to choose the birds.
It would have included targeting prior to they reached the embryo phase, which would significantly minimize the variety of seagulls born.
However, the Rhyl Business Improvement District stepped down from the plan due to intense reaction from animal rights activists.
The seagulls have actually triggered a divide in the town
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Councillor Brian Jones, who rests on the board of the Rhyl Business Improvement District, said: “What you have to realise is there is a lobby of people who really care about seagulls, and they will get pretty upset if you start talking about [reducing the numbers], but there are two sides to the debate.
“There are people who love seagulls. Before Covid the Rhyl Business Improvement District carried out an exercise and came up with a project in which you could control the breeding of seagulls. There are probably somewhere in the region of 500 nesting sites in Rhyl and the immediate area and there was a legal solution, a liquid solution you can paint on eggs when they have only just been laid so you are not killing anything, as the embryo hasn’t formed, and you can control the breeding.
“Five hundred pairs [of gulls] so a thousand chicks times two or three times a year – that’s where your big problem comes from. Where we are now, the breeding season is well under way. The parents are looking for food and swooping or diving in as people are coming out of shops,” he concluded.
As they are wild birds, seagulls’ nests and eggs are safeguarded under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. It protests the law to recklessly eliminate, hurt or damage their nests.
