Gulls in Barcelona increasingly aggressive

The gulls are a very territorial species that defend their land against trespassers as we are seeing in recent months on the coast of Barcelona. Specifically we have seen from some apartments in Barcelona, in the Barceloneta area a few meters from the beach. Seagulls are flying and chopped intimidation to deter any potential intruder from the area where their nests, and that during the summer months gulls entering their breeding season.
The most worrying thing is the impact of man on the coast. By building more buildings, hotels and apartments in Barcelona, we found more urban area and therefore a dispute between the man and the gull through this area as are the roofs or balconies. Is especially true when a neighbor comes to the balcony, or upload to your roof to water the plants, hang clothes or any other activity carried out in this.
Another of the things that most concern to biologists is the change in diet of gulls, which being more urban, many are now eating more waste of man to be much easier to find this type of food. In addition, pigeons have become their new diet devouring doves after being attacked from several seagulls in the group.

Barcelona sensitivity campaign

Municipal government launched In April an aggressive campaign of sensibility. This campaign is designed to there are thing that are prohibited to do in Barcelona. A lot of Barcelona apartments wake up with piss in the doors or with some broken glass. In these days is normal to see in the streets posters depicting stick figures with slogan like “Everything fits here but not everything goes”. Another action to cut this incivility is prohibiting the happy hours and the two-for-one drinks to try to decrease the number of drunks in Barcelona and to cut down the pastime of the bachelors.

Barcelona made a big change since the 1992 Olympic Games and the urban campaigns has grown exponential in these years. These actions make grown the quantity of visits of tourist and in consequence the number of bookings for hotels and the rent of the Barcelona apartment. Nowadays Barcelona is one of the most visited cities in Europe with about 7 million overnight visitors. This increase of tourist, the double of visits than 10 years ago, is based in no-frills airlines and budget tour operators that bring very significant groups of persons from all parts of Europe with the slogan travel to get, well, wasted.