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Chicagoist: No Pigeons as Pets in Chicago
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Chicagoist: Give Me $100 on the 10 Bird
NPR : No Constitutional Right to Have Pigeons as Pets
American Racing Pigeon Union | Homing Pigeons | Sport Flyers
Medill News Service : Chicago - Pigeon Protectors Beware: Your Birds May Have to Fly the Coop
Harga Daging Dan Ikan Tidak Dikawal
The Indiana Law Blog: Ind. Decisions - More on: 7th Circuit upholds prohibition against pigeons coming home to Chicago to roost

But in fact the ban is perfectly in keeping with a long, deep Chicago tradition of being first while being last. Chicago is a perverse American town where losing is winning (see its baseball team, the Cubs). Whenever Chicago is first in something, it has to be something that no one else would want to be first in. It's a strange, almost lovable kind of logic. As long as you don't have to live there.

SIX!

Pigeons descend on UA, drugs, poisons, electricity, what next?

Pigeons descend on UA, drugs, poisons, electricity, what next?
Pigeons descend on UA - News

Hawks are introduced to the Pigeon
Enfield Council News January - March 2007 Pigeons beware as hawks patrol the sky

The war continues concerning Save the Trafalgar Square Pigeons
London Net : Archive News - Mayor Ken faces Court Action Over Pigeons - 2007-01-29

Once again sneaky pigeon killings that make it easy for the "public" to just live their lives pretending birds don't have a problem from humans.

Washington DC Metro poisoning them but not getting the carcasses cleaned up in time for commuters. Apparently they've been doing it for 15 years.

Ironically, until recently my ex husb was an Asst. Gen Manager of Metro, in charge of construction. hrmph!

DC Metro: Policy Was Broken in Bird Kill

A commercial pest poison was quickly pinpointed as the cause. No human injuries were reported.
Oneday, one of these poisoned birds will end up in the hands of a child, and that child will be infected and become very ill.
Stray cats will take one of these birds home with them poison and all.
Why?, why does it take a human to be infected to open thy eyes?
I don't understand why something horrible has to happen before anything is done about it, why does a human life has to be involved before these horrors are ended, what about the horrors done unto these wonderful birds????

Because in every single case, humans will consider their own convenience as priority, citing the stupid expression "the food chain" and other irrelevant "rules".

Think about even "mans best friend" not even having any real protection. Lemon laws only allow the consumer to give the sick dog back for a "trade". Nobody ever goes back to the LICENSED puppy mills.

So these outside birds don't stand a chance, imo. Without advocates making real life known to the general public.

Look what I just found on Fox News:

Pigeon Dung Contributed to Minneapolis Bridge Collapse
Wednesday, August 22, 2007

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Pounded and strained by heavy traffic and weakened by missing bolts and cracking steel, the failed Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River also faced a less obvious enemy: Birds, specifically pigeons.

Inspectors began documenting the buildup of pigeon dung on the span near downtown Minneapolis two decades ago.

Experts say the corrosive guano deposited all over the span's framework helped the steel beams rust faster.

Although investigators have yet to identify the cause of the bridge's Aug. 1 collapse, which killed at least 13 people and injured about 100, the pigeon problem is one of many factors that dogged the structure.

"There is a coating of pigeon dung on steel with nest and heavy buildup on the inside hollow box sections," inspectors wrote in a 1987-1989 report.

In 1996, screens were installed over openings in the bridge's beams to keep pigeons from nesting there, but that didn't prevent the building of droppings elsewhere.

Pigeon droppings contain ammonia and acids, said chemist Neal Langerman, an officer with the health and safety division of the American Chemical Society. If the dung isn't washed away, it dries out and turns into a concentrated salt. When water gets in and combines with the salt and ammonia, it creates small electrochemical reactions that rust the steel underneath.

"Every time you get a little bit of moisture there, you wind up having a little bit of electrochemistry occurring and you wind up with corrosion," said Langerman. "Over a long term, it might in fact cause structural weaknesses."

Langerman emphasized that he wasn't saying pigeon dung factored into the collapse of the 40-year-old bridge. "Let's let the highway transportation and safety people do their job," he said.

The problem is familiar to bridge inspectors everywhere.

The Colorado Department of Transportation spent so much time cleaning pigeon manure off bridges that it is embarking on a two-year research project looking for ways to keep pigeons away from its spans.

"It can be damaging to our structures because it's slightly acidic and it has other compounds in it that can dissolve especially things like concrete," said Patricia Martinek, the agency's environmental research manager.

Pigeon guano isn't just a danger to the bridges.

In the Denver area, the Colorado DOT pays outside environmental specialists to clean bridges wearing full biohazard suits with respirators because of heightened fears about bird flu and other diseases, said Rob Haines, who supervises maintenance there.

Keeping pigeons off bridges usually requires a multi-pronged strategy that can include netting to block holes and surfaces, spikes to keep them from landing, and sometimes poisoning, shooting or trapping the birds, said John Hart, a Grand Rapids, Minn.-based wildlife biologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The problem is that pigeons are naturally drawn to bridges and tall buildings since they're descended from cliff-dwellers, said Karen Purcell, who heads Project PigeonWatch at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Bridges offer shelter from predators and flat surfaces for nesting and roosting.

"It's a nice fit for them," Purcell said.