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  "path": "/countryside/rural-life/hitchcocks-villain-the-great-black-backed-gull-remains-a-formidable-predator-on-the-big-screen-and-on-our-coastlines",
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  "textContent": "'The Birds' vilified this species of bird on the big screen. They remain instinctively wary and you can almost never get close to one — with good reason, writes Mark Cocker.",
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