You can get a protest rent a crowd together for anything these days. The Wellington pro-pigeon lobby is a prime example – these people are pro-vermin, perhaps they’ll picket New World tomorrow for selling mouse traps. Were I to harass them at lunchtime the way a pigeon would they’d call the Police.
Pigeons are germ carrying, squawking, building soiling, shit machines that have no more place in the CBD than rats or any other creature that carpets public places with their excrement. The sooner the council gets on with culling pigeons the better.
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Steve Withers // 17 October, 2008 at 11:20 pm |
Pigeons seem to live around man-made structures. I can’t recall ever seeing a pigeon (not a wood pigeon) somewhere other than in a city.
I can see keeping the numbers down……but otherwise they are harmless.
Che Tibby // 18 October, 2008 at 5:19 pm |
my question. how do we get rid of all the bits of food left lying around if we don’t have pigeons?
pay for street sweepers?
Richard // 18 October, 2008 at 8:52 pm |
SW: Apparently city pigeons (wherever you find them) are the feral spawn of domesticated Rock Pigeons, which look pretty much the same and have a habitat across Nth Africa, Europe and Western Asia. It is interesting (and fortunate) that they haven’t moved out of the cities and how they’re rare even in inner city suburbs.
Che: We do pay for street cleaners, you’ll find them sweeping up pigeon shite and feathers. Then there’s the damage done by said shite to buildings. Killing pigeons is the frugal approach.