If the falcons eat them they won’t be around to defecate anywhere.
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Hmmmm. Better not let the falcons poop either. Or let the falcons leave any carcass remains. I think the seagull poop issue is just optics, quite visible.
You are probably right. They want to get rid of the gulls mainly for aesthetic reasons - can’t blame them — but they probably figure they need to work in the angle of helping the environment so the the lefty animal lovers go along with it.