Where will the gulls go once Mont Cuet is covered over?
COASTAL car parks and built-up areas should be safe from gull infestations when Mont Cuet closes, some of the island's bird experts have said.
Currently, there are between 10,000 and 20,000 using Mont Cuet every day as a feeding ground, which raised the question of where they will go when the landfill site is closed and covered over.
There are regular stories of cities in the UK having gull infestations, with the birds nesting near local takeout restaurants and parks.
La Societe Guernesiaise ornithologist Vic Froome has said, however, that they are likely to travel away from the island to find other places to feed rather than nest en masse in Town.
'We have been putting this open question out for years now,' he said.
'There is always the fear that they will start to breed inland, like we hear about in Jersey and the UK, but when that has happened here previously it was never in massive numbers.'
