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  Birds of prey will usually displace birds such as gulls and pigeons rather than killing them, although I must admit we saw a peregrine falcon take a pigeon in our back garden a couple of years ago. If they frightened away the gulls and pigeons there would still be enough rats and mice to keep them going. Jeremy Stattersfield once told me that the main cause of death among the local gull population is botulism from eating rotten rubbish. Surely a quick kill from a natural predator is preferable to a lingering death from botulinous poisoning?

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