Holidaymakers in England witnessed a terrible crime: a tourist killed a seagull on a crowded beach - and committed a crime.
England - The tourists at Porthgwidden Beach in St. Ives, in the Cornwall region, had probably imagined this holiday to be different: on a crowded beach, they witnessed a man strangling a seagull.
The reason for this was banal - he felt disturbed.
But the reactions are sharp, as the
Sun
reports.
Because a seagull had stolen its food, a tourist is said to have hit the animal with toys, the daily reported.
Previously, he threw the bird with cans and injured it.
Video footage of passers-by, available to the
Sun
, also showed the man strangling the animal until it let go of the prey.
Then you see the man throwing the dead animal back into the water.
England vacationers report: "It was absolutely terrible"
Passers-by were shocked by the behavior - but nobody intervened.
"I've never experienced such violence against an animal," one vacationer told the
Sun.
A short time later the police were called - but the perpetrator had already fled.
Violent incidents against seagulls in England have been increasing for a number of years.
The reason is often given that the birds themselves are getting bolder and more aggressive, as the
faz
reported.
In Germany, too, there are now many videos about aggressive seagulls on the Internet.
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Seagulls are getting bolder - like here on Tynemouth Beach in England
© dpa
Animal welfare: Seagulls are threatened with extinction
As the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA)
,
an animal welfare organization in England, said, the man committed a crime by killing seagulls.
Because: Seagulls are protected by species.
It is therefore not allowed to intentionally kill, injure or take the birds with you - this also applies to their eggs and nests.
In Germany, too, gulls belong to the “specially protected species” and are only allowed to be hunted or kept for use to a limited extent, according to the Nature Conservation Association of North Rhine-Westphalia (NABU)
.
Here they are even on the red list of endangered bird species.
Even
international seagulls are loud
NABU classified as a "protected animal species" by the Bern Convention.
(Stefanie Fischhaber)
