By Angie Brown BBC Scotland News Image caption, Signs at Portobello beach state “bird poo contributes to water contamination” Posters caution individuals at Scottish beaches not to feed seagulls as “bird poo contributes to water contamination” haveactually been challenged by ornithology professionals. The indications are part of Keep Scotland Beautiful’s My Beach Your Beach project. It stated it targeted beaches “which face difficulties with bathing water quality”. But RSPB Scotland and the British Trust for Ornithology stated they did not assistance the message on the posters. The indications haveactually been published along 7 beaches at Ayr, Troon, Irvine, Saltcoats, Kinghorn, Portobello and Fisherrow. Conservation charity RSPB Scotland informed BBC Scotland seabird droppings, understood as guano, were essential sources of nutrients for marine life such as phytoplankton. Image source, Getty Images Image caption, The Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth is generally house to 150,000 gannets An RSPB spokesperson stated herring gulls had decreased by more than 50% giventhat 1970 and were continuing to do terribly along with other seabirds due to modifications in natural food materials. She stated: “Gulls requirement our assistance, or at least our tolerance, all the types breeding in the UK are of preservation issue with some in extremely severe difficulty. “Gulls have typically lived along our shorelines, we can aid by knowing to live togetherwith them.” She stated guano included phosphorus and nitrogen “which permit phytoplankton to grow, which feeds a range of marine types, from snails to fish that people consume”. She included that feeding gulls in city environments, such as Portobello Beach, was not advised as it might motivate gulls to ask, swoop for, or take food from individuals. Pretty harmless But she stated the charity did not assistance the concept seabirds contaminated
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