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Radio 4,10 Oct 2017,28 mins

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Brett Westwood follows gulls away from the sea and explores how they thrive in cities and at the landfill sites where birders gather to watch and ring them. Featuring Dominic Mitchell who spotted the UK's first slaty-backed gull, Viola Ross-Smith of the British Trust for Ornithology, Peter Rock on the Bristol urban gull study, artist Mark Dion who built the Mobile Gull Appreciation Unit and Dr Chris Pawson who headed up a study into the behaviour of gulls and our attitudes towards them. Producer: Tom Bonnett.

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