[h=1]Climate change may be turning gulls into cannibals[/h] By
Tristan Baurick of the Kitsap Sun
July 23, 2016
PROTECTION ISLAND ? Jim Hayward slips on a hard hat and pops open an umbrella before stepping into a storm of angry gulls.
Hayward, a seabird biologist based on Protection Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, is making his evening rounds through the largest gull nesting colony in the Puget Sound region. He's been monitoring this site since 1987, so he's used to the shrieking, the divebombing, the frequent splatterings of gull poop, and the pecking at his head, hands and feet.
What he's not accustomed to is the cannibalism. It's hard to watch..
