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After a Toronto Transit Commission facility was swarmed by seagulls this spring, noise cannons and netting successfully kept the birds from nesting on its green roof, a spokesperson said.After a Toronto Transit Commission facility was swarmed by seagulls this spring, noise cannons and netting have successfully kept the birds from nesting on its green roof, a spokesperson said.
"The netting kept them off the roof, the cannons kept them off the netting. So it was really a combination of things that worked," Green said in a recent interview with CBC Toronto. "It wasn't surprising to me that when a football-sized green roof showed up next to the Leslie Street spit that the gulls would start using it," she said, the spit is the land that stretches into Lake Ontario and holds Tommy Thompson Park.
Fraser said she hoped there could be a way to allow them to nest in lower numbers, so there wouldn't be as many conflicts between the gulls and humans.Dave Moore, a waterbird biologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, worked with the TTC to help address the gull issue.He said when figuring out how to stop the birds from landing on a roof, they usually work through a progression starting with the least invasive methods.
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