Londonist: Kingston Pigeon Cull

ami

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:08:49 +0000

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chris

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:28:06 +0000

Extermination is big business and this is a gold mine for whoever gets the contract, paid for by the rate payers. Culling does not reduce the pigeon population for any amount of time, but councils are not prepared to listen to reason probably because environmental departments are staffed with robots. all who care should refer to PICAS who have spent a lot of time and effort trying to educate the public on how and why there are so many pigeons and the humane way of reducing them open our minds!!!!!!!!

Mona Zemsky

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 20:38:49 +0000

Great post! After 42 years in the bird control business (www.bird-x.com), we’ll point out that there are even more reasons to keep birds away - you mention the ugly, messy droppings, the diseases, some of which can be fatal to humans, and the property defacement. In addition, there's the safety issue of slips and falls, and potential lawsuits. Money wasted: property devaluation, property damage and cleanup/repair costs. Furthermore, spending time dealing with bird problems is an enormous opportunity cost for anyone charged with this responsibility. If considering solutions, we recommend those that make the area undesirable, solving the problem permanently. If one were to use lethal methods, new birds will still be attracted. And time management concerns will always favor a one-time fix over constant purchasing and maintenance. Thanks,

Hmph

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:10:17 +0000

Ever caught a disease from a pigeon? Ever been bullied/frightened by one? Small kids tend to love them, not run screaming from them. Seagulls are the real ASBOlute horrors of our city, pooing on and attacking people... pigeons just live their mucky little lives and, beyond defacing cars that are themselves responsible for pumping noxious fumes into our city day after day anyway, do little harm. As the person above points out, their dirtiness is due largely to the filthy metropolis they inhabit. And they're quite amiable creatures really. I loathe this frankly horrific notion that we are justified in wiping out a cross-section of a species because we find their existence inconvenient. Vive les pigeons!

Bleep

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:36:57 +0000

At the risk of romaticizing our urban feathered friends, they are our urban wild life and has survive whatever we have thrown at them. It is a goo d metaphor to compare them to the urban youth which are undervalued and demonised in the same way. These diseases they carry where do they get them from - if our cities were sterile (in all senses of the word) places then they would be disease free but do't blame them for being resilient to disease. Cherish our wildlife like our teenagers , they may grow into an Amy Winehouse our Mutya - it's a stretch I know but the other possibility of london populated by Mirandas and Tobys with centuries of in breeding behind them doesn't bear thinking about. Sorry to move this to class but this is what it reminds me of - Pelicans are sloanes and pidgeons are hackney kids.