Chaos at children’s event as aggressive gulls attack 16 times

• An Easter egg hunt in Inverness, Scotland, was marred by 16 reported incidents of aggressive gulls swooping at and striking children and members of the public.
• Inverness Business Improvement District (Bid) ambassador Janice Worthing described the gulls' behaviour as "frequent and coordinated".
• Highland Council is launching an Inverness Gull Management Plan pilot project to better understand the gull population and its impact on the community.
• The pilot project will include an online portal for residents to report "Gull Impact Data", which will help identify hotspots and prevalent behaviours to inform targeted mitigation advice.
• The issue of aggressive urban gulls is a wider concern in Scotland, with previous calls for a nationwide summit and £100,000 in government funding allocated in 2025 to tackle disruptive populations.

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Inverness wages war on seagulls after ‘coordinated attacks on children’ at Easter egg hunt