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Seagulls plague cities: Now drones are deployed in air warfare | India | The Danish Nature Agency is experiencing an increasing number of applications to be allowed to regulate seagulls. By You may know them on the marked scream, or perhaps you have heard them as flying rats. The seagulls are especially to be found in the big cities and are rarely welcome. Therefore, completely new and creative methods are used in the fight between seagulls and humans. Jonas Cort owns the company SkyLevel, which, among other things, markets itself on so-called seagull regulation. Jonas Cort calls himself a seagull warrior, and he fights that war with a drone. Equipped with a drone, he flushes seagull nests and eggs to pieces with a high-pressure cleaner. In this way, the gulls' eggs are prevented from hatching - at least in the area that is being washed. And there are more and more people who are showing interest in getting rid of the gulls with this method, he says. - There is a demand for it, and especially now here, where the gulls are nesting, people turn to, says Jonas Cort. See here what it looks like when a gull is removed with a high-pressure cleaner mounted on a drone. Can you understand if you sit at home and think that this is animal cruelty? - Yes, I can understand that. But it is also important to say that you must have a permit from the Danish Nature Agency to perform this task. Precisely at the Danish Nature Agency you experience an increasing number of applications to be allowed to regulate especially gulls. If you have been granted a permit to regulate herring gulls, you must therefore not use that permit on, for example, a storm gull. , who can apply for permission for regulation. If you get it, it typically lasts from mid-January to the end of August. As soon as you have the permission to do so, only creativity sets limits. It can be a robotic lawnmower that you put on the roof or a high-pressure cleaner that flushes the eggs away. Sandor Hestbæk Markus, game consultant at the Danish Nature Agency The permit consists in short of two parts. The first part is valid from January to mid-April and gives permission to scare away and shoot some of the adult gulls. There is no upper limit for how many you can shoot, but it must be done by a person with. From mid-April to August, the permit means that you can regulate nests, eggs and fry - ie hatched chicks.- Once you have the permission to do so, only creativity sets limits. It can be a robotic lawnmower that you put on the roof, a high-pressure cleaner that flushes the eggs away, or that you go up on the roof and sweep nests down, it sounds from the game consultant. You should not put a robotic lawnmower on the roof if there are chicks in the nest. The purpose of, for example, a robotic lawnmower must be to stress the seagull so that it feels like breeding elsewhere, just as there must be no knives in the lawnmower. For biologist at the Danish Ornithological Society, Knud Flensted, it is important that the Danish Nature Agency side ensures that regulation takes place properly.- If there are no chicks or eggs approaching the time of hatching, in the nest, we have no direct criticism of the animal welfare.If there are no chicks or eggs approaching the time for hatching, in the nest, we have no direct criticism of the animal welfare. Knud Flensted, biologist in the Danish Ornithological Society. The association, on the other hand, wants that in connection with the regulation of seagulls in cities move to.- One should ensure that the gulls have an attractive alternative where one can tolerate them. For example, on fox-free islets in the fjord or on buildings where they are not a nuisance. Sandor Hestbæk Markus points out that the conflict between humans and seagulls may be due to the fact that we have moved closer to each other. - People have moved closer to the coast. We see in several places - for example in Aalborg and Aarhus - that housing is being built out to the waterfront. At the same time, the seagulls have found that flat roofs are fantastic breeding areas because they do not come. In the cities there is also plenty of rubbish, such as our bag from the golden seagull, McDonald's. But it is not certain that you will become particularly popular among your neighbors if you call in a so-called seagull hunter. - We are really just moving around on the seagull challenge. So the neighbor will probably experience that more seagulls come over to them, says Jonas Cort and adds: - We prevent fry on the spot, and then there is a little more night rest, but the seagulls will probably always be in the cities.