Posted on 11/10/2014 2:22:53 PM PST by jazusamo
Video at link.
Now that a crucial section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has been replaced by a new $6.4 billion span, nobody needs it anymore -- nobody except about 800 birds who call the decrepit, 78-year-old segment home.
The double-breasted cormorants - protected, though not endangered - have nested along the bridge for decades, and have so far shown no interest in relocating to the shiny new section that replaced the eastern section of the famed bridge. Officials have tried pricey decoys, bird recordings and even specially-made nests installed underneath the new span to lure them roughly 100 feet next door. The effort to demolish the old section, damaged 25 years ago in the massive Loma Prieta earthquake, is being held up by the birds' unwillingness to move, and critics, who say the delays could cost taxpayers $33 million, are crying fowl.
"They're spending $33 million to get rid of these 800 birds - that comes out to about $40,000 a bird- that's more money than most people in the United States make in a given year!" said Brian Sussman, a conservative radio talk show host in San Francisco.
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Demolish the bridge and the smart ones will move and survive.
Birds are not stupid like Democrats. They will move to a new place, not sit and wait for someone to give them one.....................
They are an invasive, imported species,
and should NOT be protected.
Do they taste good?
You gotta see this.
Only if you like your chicken to tast like fish .
That's all they eat : fish and minnows
The better tasting ones can be found in freshwater !
They are extremely invasive and have a huge appetite. They can wipe out a stock pond in a few days.
Btw, they’re double crested cormorants, not double breasted. I tend to like things that are the latter.
Spending $33 million of taxpayer money is just the entry cost, then another $12 million more per year .
No wonder we are broke.
Where’s their EBT cards and Social Security???
Cry fowl!
Yeah, just up around the corner on the Sacramento-San Joaquin River they jacked up the price of a new toll crossing a couple of hundred million with "special mitigation efforts" to "protect" the migrating Salmon from the "effects" of the pile driving for the bridge' footings
Exactly, and if this plays out like they’re saying the true cost may well be double that much or more.
Crony socialism disguised as environmentalism, plain and simple.
Government has literally gone to the birds.
Its more bird-brained than the cormorants its been trying to evict.
It would be a laughing matter if it wasn’t so stupid.
Slicing up actually endangered birds of prey with “green” wind farms? Perfectly OK.
Tearing down this bridge (they’d move)? Not so much.
Got it. /bizarro world...
Stupidity is the right word but to be expected from BS bureaucrats.
They taste like a cross between Bald Eagle and Spotted Owl.
They’ll move when they set off the charges.
I’m pretty sure that if you take the old bridge down the cormorants are going to go somewhere.
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