Pigeon wars
By Catherine Scullion
A $1,000 system was installed this week in New York’s ‘Crossroads of the World’ in order to combat the most recent enemy of the US armed forces: pigeons.
The Army recruitment centre is determined to suffer no longer the noise, dirt and general unpleasantness of their feathered neighbours and have splashed out on a sound system. They hope that by playing the noises made by predatory birds they’ll make the pigeons hop it.
This is a new solution to the pigeon problem faced the world-over. In Trafalgar Square the Government didn’t stop at noises and, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds to taxpayers, brought in birds of prey.
Other methods have been less successful; another business in Times Square tried a plastic owl. “By the third day I swear the pigeons wanted to mate with it” said Robert Esposito, vice president of operations at the Times Square Alliance business group.
The Army recruitment centre is determined to suffer no longer the noise, dirt and general unpleasantness of their feathered neighbours and have splashed out on a sound system. They hope that by playing the noises made by predatory birds they’ll make the pigeons hop it.
This is a new solution to the pigeon problem faced the world-over. In Trafalgar Square the Government didn’t stop at noises and, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds to taxpayers, brought in birds of prey.
Other methods have been less successful; another business in Times Square tried a plastic owl. “By the third day I swear the pigeons wanted to mate with it” said Robert Esposito, vice president of operations at the Times Square Alliance business group.Get more from the Null:
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