After part of the iconic Santa Cruz Wharf collapsed into the ocean amid powerful waves on Monday, feathered culprits have been found to factor into the pier’s damage: seagulls.

Visitors to Seabright State Beach this week walk past debris that came ashore following the collapse of a section of the Santa Cruz Wharf on Monday. Pilings, beams and a myriad of material from

When the last 150 feet of Santa Cruz’s iconic wharf plummeted into the ocean Monday, city leaders were still grappling with damage it had sustained two years earlier during back-to-back winter storms.