Pigeons in our neighborhood are suffering from lead poisoning. ;O]
No, this story is NOT about some sports hooligans who are dedicated to a sports club named "The Pigeons" and who attacked a rival club named "The Raptors."
This news story title is a bit misleading and weird.
Anyways...I HATE pigeons! They are nothing more than flying rat vermin as far as I am concerned.
If anything, we need MORE birds of prey in our downtown areas to clear out these filthy feathered cockroaches.
I work in downtown San Diego and we need more hawks and falcons here. The pigeons here are just a pain in the @ss.
It must be the great San Diego weather that keeps them coming back here (oh, and the armies of homeless people who litter their food and trash around for the pigeons to eat.)
These pigeon "fans" need to be locked up. Go FEDS!
Links to diseases carried by pigeons:
http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/wildlife/pigeons.htm
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/epi/epi-pigeon.shtml
http://www.bird-x.com/birddiseases.html
Pigeons probably taste better than raptors anyway.
>> Because of a genetic defect, the birds do backward flips while in flight, making them attractive prey for hawks and falcons. “This is a group of hobbyists who selectively inbred a genetic defect that attracts predators,” then seemed to “feel entitled . . . to engage in the wholesale slaughter of these predators,”
I’m still laughing. You just can’t make this stuff up!
I indirectly breed merlins. Comes from having bird feeders.
Three days ago I saw one leaving my yard with what was surely a mourning dove. Guess these people would kill me for that.
Pigeons are the rats of the bird world.
So, you're saying we need bigger birds of prey to solve the homeless problem?
I'm referring to the two whales stuck in the Sacramento River in California. Natural selection at work. Nature is uncompromising, cruel and, in the final analysis, wise beyond all human comparison.
But...
Here we have dozens of self-important doofuses, who know that the world revolves around themselves, their interests and their public-jobs-as-welfare activities.
They are determined to "save" those whales. I have no problem with that.
What I do have a problem with is the millions that they have spent so far (of our taxpayer money) to feel good and important about what they do.
Once upon a time, private money did these thing. No problem.
When public money is involved, and these "public servants" make rules about where we may go or not go, and what we may do or not do, and spend weeks getting paid for it, it eventually makes my blood boil.
These whales are toast; in not before, certainly with the trauma they are being subjected to in the name of "compassion", by the parasites of human society.
Am I overreacting?
They would go ape if they saw how many pigeons the turtles eat here each day.
You want to get rid of them, buy some popcorn, and some alka seltzer. Break the tablets once, mix with the popcorn, feed it to them.
They literally ‘pop’.
When I saw the headline, I thought maybe the folks ran an orental restaurant, and didn’t like the competition for the poultry supply.
“No, this story is NOT about some sports hooligans who are dedicated to a sports club named “The Pigeons” and who attacked a rival club named “The Raptors.”
It might be soon if the raptor fans start taking it out on the pigeon fans.
Raptors rock, pigeons poop everywhere and are annoying.
Among the delicacies served are shark's fin and fillet of garoupa, and, of course, roast goose and pigeon.
Pesky prehistoric pigeons...
Is there a video of this on YouTube? It would be a hoot to watch!
I have heard pigeons taste good, is that true?
I loathe pigeons because I must have thirty of them living in the eaves of my house. The home builder must have deliberately designed the house that way. We also have hawks in our neighborhood and I cheer them on whenever they nab a filthy pigeon. Sometimes I come out of the house and find a pigeon wing or a ripped off pigeon head and nod approvingly. Every morning I have to power hose the pigeon droppings off my vehicles before I can go to work. If it weren’t for the fact that San Francisco would probably hit me with numerous felonies for silently assassinating pigeons with a high powered air rifle, I’d be zapping them in the head constantly until they got the message that living in my neighborhood meant certain death. I just wish feral cats had wings or there were lots more hawks in the area.