seacue - any chance you could use three letter codes? Or is that just to confuse us non-pilots. I can work out the K removal for the US, but the UK places take a while to get used to.
How about just about every airport in the Caribbean? Wouldn't they be at risk from seagulls? I can think of large lagoons around SXM & SJU to name a couple. MRS runway goes on to a lake - oh sod it, isn't this list endless? Even in the UK, there's LCY, LHR, EDI, GLA - even BHX is near wetlands at Hampton in Arden.
I did speak to the CET - the reporter Sarah Portlock is based in their Leamington office, which is much more of a nimby central than Coventry.
Interesting to note all 5 responses dismissing the so-called wildlife "expert" - sorry, he might be a wildlife expert, but he's not an aviation expert. Besides, the whole problem seems to relate to an unnatural growth in their populations anyway, so I don't think a reproductive cull (if that's the right term) would do that much harm anyway.
Letter to the editor to follow....