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Annual surveys have begun to record steady increases in eider ducks, guillemots, herring gulls and lesser-backed gulls on and around the island, year on year.

The lead sentence in the Los Angeles Times story was, “Playing in conditions more suitable for sea gulls and ducks.”

The gull swooped past the crowd of creatures and cried, “Help! Roz! Follow me!”

Instead, the main agents of colonization appear to be gulls, geese, and shorebirds, which carried seeds in their digestive systems or droppings.

One day in December, Nat notices gulls, crows, starlings and wrens massing menacingly overhead.