Gulls can be a pain and a pest by pecking open rubbish bags for food and even occasionally attacking people who eat in the street.
But John Butler, the Birdman of Brighton, says it's all our fault by encouraging the gulls through feeding them scraps of bread.
The best way to encourage gulls to go back to their natural diet of fish and worms is for us to give them the bird.
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