By Dave Branco

Bird chaos

Confusion and chaos as hundreds of young gulls roam downtown mall, waiting to take flight

Jul 11, 2023 | 3:21 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – If you close your eyes, the parking lot at Parkwood Place looks and sounds like oceanfront property. Hundreds of young gulls have made this downtown location a place to roost.

It’s rare to see hundreds of gulls walking in a busy parking lot. This behaviour concerns a local bird rescue society.

“ Our ultimate goal is to hopefully work with some authorities or local managements around here to build deterrents, to stop the birds from nesting in this area. It’s a bad place for the birds, and they’re quite a nuisance to the businesses and the people that shop and frequent this area.”

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Bird Book Author and watcher Clive Keen says the birds creating all the noise are native to this area.

“ They are colonial breeders. So you don’t just get a couple of them. They come in groups, they all breed, and there are all these youngsters; they are days old.

So they glide down from the roof, they can’t fly, there are naive. They don’t know about getting out of the way. “

Clive Keen

Bird Book Author

Keen says it’s a wonderful time of year to see the number of birds; however, it creates confusion for those who may need to be more familiar with the ring-billed gull. These young gulls are expected to walk around for the next few days until they learn to fly.

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