[[Sounds like you wouldn’t shoot them, and maybe I wouldn’t either, unless they were driving songbirds from my feeders.]]
Or roosting in a tree crapping all over your vehicles, destroying both your lawn and your car’s paint, and eating holes In the driveway, and eating native species out of house and hone- and... invasive species do tremendous damage when they thrive and become too numerous for certain locales- many times though it’s our fault that they multiply as much as they do for providing them easy food and safety by not becoming aggressive when they become a problem
lol.
My vehicles are inside so the birds don’t get ‘em.
But I do hate the migrating grackles that try to take over the yard.
I have killed various scavenging animals and some birds too...last winter during a bad stretch I was trying to keep some little feral cats alive and was putting food out for ‘em.
I won’t name the birds that were trying to hog the kibble but I knocked a few off them off the fencepost with my little 10/22...then the cats ate THEM until the raccoons started coming, and one day...one day I pulled into the yard and I thought it was a MAN standing down there by the food dish.
Got out of the vehicle and a bald eagle lifted off the fencepost, big as a piece of the sky, with one of the bird carcasses in his beak!
But that’s nature. Lots of suffering, lots of killing. The carnage never stops. And anytime you try to intervene there are consequences. Thos little white cats didn’t make it, so far as I could tell.
Never ate a coyote. Hope I never have to. Had to kill a couple out in Idaho and the big golden eagles came for them. Amazing.