SEAGULL PROBLEM, ACCORDING TO THE EXPERT ALESSANDRO SARTORI THERE ARE ABOUT A DOZEN IN ST MARK’S

According to Alessandro Sartori, the Venetian scholar who has worked with ANCI to look into the problem of the numerous herring gulls in Venice, there are 200-400 of them in the city centre and about a dozen resident in St Mark’s Square. This is what he said to the Gazzettino in a long article published today by Elisio Trevisan. Sartori specifies that in St Mark’s there are only ‘three adults and seven to eight young birds’, but which quickly learn how to act and if they know that food can be easily found in a certain place, they never leave it. Sartori has no doubt that the first thing to do is to immediately fine those feeding the seagulls in St Mark’s, possibly using Veritas employees in the Square. In this way there is a chance that, no longer easily finding food, the seagulls will move away. Sartori’s operational plan, in general, is simple and divided into three stages: constant monitoring, restricting the sources of food supply, counting the pairs that nest in the city and then immediately drawing up an anti-nesting plan in time for 2016.