AdvertisementFor the last few years, Guerra has been studying the eating habits of western gulls that nest on Anacapa and Santa Barbara islands in the Channel Islands archipelago. Advertisement“There was a gull on Santa Barbara Island that vomited an entire corn dog with a stick,” Guerra said. But on Anacapa and Santa Barbara islands, gulls appear to be the ones spoiling the wild habitat with processed food and puked-up trash. “And is the gulls’ diet helping or hurting them?”::Together, the Santa Barbara and Anacapa islands provide a nesting habitat for more than a quarter of the world’s estimated 80,000 western sea gulls. ::On a late-summer afternoon on Anacapa, Guerra bent down on one knee while squawking sea gulls flew overhead.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 22, 2019 12:00 UTC