Some of the casualties are natural, like turtle hatchlings dropped by gulls onto a construction site.
In the past swooping gulls stole food from people sitting at tables outside the cafe.
How about swiping gulls' eggs from nests and replacing them with fakes, so they never hatch?
Overhead, gulls and gannets ride the thermals or roost in noisy colonies on the cliff faces.
The U's dominated early on but the Gulls took the lead through captain Chris Hargreaves' sweet 18-yard strike.
And gulls seemed to be getting bigger, with wings-spans often reaching five feet.
Up stepped Gulls goalkeeper Gareth Howells to calmly make it 5-4 on penalties.
The Gulls are currently second from bottom in the table, with just two wins from their first 10 games.
He estimates there are 100, 000 pairs of breeding urban gulls on rooftops around town and cities across the nation.
BBC: Who What Why: Why are there so many seagulls in cities?
Gulls have a reputation for being aggressive, particularly in spring and summer when they breed and raise their young.
BBC: Who What Why: Why are there so many seagulls in cities?
The solution she is pitching to the region's mayors: build an island where gulls can eat and breed in peace.
The primary draw of the Hamptons is its spectacular beaches backed by fabulous homes, picket-fenced wild dunes and clustering gulls.
In contrast, the number of rural gulls in the UK have declined significantly in recent decades, according to the RSPB.
BBC: Who What Why: Why are there so many seagulls in cities?
Gulls keeper Scott Bevan kept his side in the game by saving a Tubbs penalty after Chris Zebroski was sent off.
Now that Amble has a smart new purifying works, the gulls no longer circle over the end of the underwater sewage pipe.
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And it will be a sense of deja-vu for the U's, who lost last year's final to the Gulls' Devon rivals Exeter.
Since the 1970s, the number of herring gulls has more than halved.
BBC: Who What Why: Why are there so many seagulls in cities?
Never the cries of the gulls, only, in summer, the crickets, cicadas.
It is hoped that here the eggs and chicks will be safe from tides, human activity and predators such as gulls or foxes.
The majority of Buckle's squad is made of the players who took the Gulls to promotion from the Blue Square Premier last season.
Rendell saw an ambitious 25-yard volley deflected just over for Cambridge before the Gulls' Chris Robertson had a similar effort fizz just wide.
No amount of boom will protect waterbirds like pelicans, gulls and terns, because diving into the water for fish is how they eat.
Gulls swoop off the sides of the winding path, down the sheer drop to the white sand and turquoise sea hundreds of feet below.
The Gulls started the second half well and came within inches of an equaliser when Stevens was unable to turn home Zebroski's low cross.
But Rock argues that these two things do not fully explain the rise in urban gulls and says more research needs to be done.
BBC: Who What Why: Why are there so many seagulls in cities?
If Bush loses, he might devote time to standing on the beach at Padre Island with pebbles in his mouth, orating at the gulls.
With the whole of the coast developed, she said, gulls will increasingly nest in the town roofs, which resemble the cliffs they favor in nature.
Terns and gulls breed on islets unspoiled by human activities.
The Gulls were looking the hungrier of the two sides, and Lee Mansell was allowed to run unchallenged before firing a long-range shot into the keeper's hands.
The salt lakes fill with fresh water, and millions of water birds - pelicans, stilts, shags and gulls - can be seen feeding on the superabundant fish and insect life.
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