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from this repository. Predation on other breeding species has
been used to justify culling adult gulls at several colonies but
few studies have been carried out to assess the effects of gull
control on these species. On the Isle of May, southeast
Scotland, numbers of herring gulls Larus argentatus and lesser
black-backed gulls L. fuscus increased rapidly during the 1960s
and large scale gull control was implemented in 1972 which
continued, albeit at a reduced level, until 1988. Prior to the
start of the cull, there was a small breeding population of
oystercatchers Haematopus ostralegus. I