Seagulls are being deliberately enticed into roads with food and then injured or killed by cars, according to a charity.
Caernarfon-based Foundation for Feathered Friends, (FFF) said the practice had increased over the past couple of years, with both adults and children spotted baiting the birds.
FFF founder Denise Theophilus, 71, said the charity had received reports of food being deliberately thrown into roads in locations along the north Wales coast, including Prestatyn, Abergele and Rhyl.
Gulls are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, like all wild birds, meaning it is illegal to intentionally kill or injure them.
Ms Theophilus, 71, started the group to "balance the hatred" she had seen for gulls when she moved to north Wales.
They are also considered a conservation concern with the six main gull species found in the UK, particularly herring gulls, in decline.
"I don't want gulls thinking all humans are like this," she added.
