Wacky proposals put forward in bid to tackle Dumfries and Galloway's seagull problem
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dailyrecord.co.ukSeveral wacky proposals have been included in a list drawn up to tackle the region’s seagulls problem – including bird birth control.Putting the area’s resident gulls on contraceptives was one of 24 ideas listed in a council report, which also considered the use of “fire gel” and introducing foxes and minks to reduce bird numbers.The radical birth control option appears to have been inspired by Blankenberge, a Belgian seaside town which first put seagulls on birth control three years ago by doping their food.It was the first time the idea has been tested on seagulls and was later being seriously considered by councils along the Yorkshire coast who were fed up of aggressive gulls divebombing tourists.This area’s “major seagulls crisis” is
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