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edxzxz 2 points ago +6 / -4

Sounds like you're not clued in to the wondrously magical pigeon eradicating invention 'half a can of tuna with half a cup of rat poison mixed in'. Dump half the tuna out, fill with rat poison, mix it up good, put it in the rafters or wherever the fuckers are roosting, and replace as needed for a couple days and voila! Inside 2 weeks tops, no more pigeons! Added bonus, they go someplace else to die.

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Kojote 8 points ago +8 / -0

Interesting. I'm more of a peregrinen falcon person myself. My mom was in the hospital in St Louis years back up in the top floors. I could watch them all day exploding pigeons in mid air with binoculars.

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edxzxz 6 points ago +6 / -0

My office is an 'L' shaped building with a chain link fence around the parking lot, tall trees around the perimeter, a block from the beach - every Monday morning there's seagull feathers and bird poop on the ground where the falcons swoop in and eat some dumbass seagull that was scavenging in our trash. I find bird heads with the spinal column attached, bones picked clean and mystery organs all the time. Very cool birds (the falcons). Never caught one in the act of pigeon or seagull murdering, but the feathers, bird parts and poop are a pretty sure sign of what's happening.

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Kojote 6 points ago +6 / -0

Oh man you gotta see it. It's like watching an A10 on a firing dive except they run into the target at like 140 mph. Its.... beautiful.

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edxzxz 4 points ago +4 / -0

One of the funniest things I've ever seen is one day I'm on the back porch at home and there's a squirrel on the top of the fence, a big hawk lands 5 feet away, squirrel freezes, hawk is totally still, turns its head 180 degrees and is staring down the squirrel - both stayed absolutely still for a couple minutes until the hawk flew away. It was like the last scene of 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly', with the Mexican standoff. I am jealous, I've never seen the actual killing.

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d_bokk 3 points ago +3 / -0

The old ladies in the neighborhood have a lot of bird feeders, bird houses and flowers. So every spring the songbirds are chirping like crazy... until a hawk found their oasis this summer. It was a total massacre, in the first week the small birds chased the hawk from tree to tree trying to distract it from the nests.

By the end of the week, no more birds chirping in the morning. And the hawk corpse camped what was left for a month. It even pried open one of the roofs of a bird house.

It was much more entertaining than watching pro sports.

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edxzxz 2 points ago +2 / -0

We had a third of a 5 story parking garage roped off as unusable because of pigeons roosting and shitting on the cars, plus the obvious disease vector of birds and their loads of shit. One guy and less than 10 bucks worth of tuna and rat poison solved the problem. They are vermin. idgaf about downvotes one bit.

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edxzxz 2 points ago +2 / -0

FYI, every single city on the planet controls rodent infestations in exactly this same manner - and pigeons are just winged rats, so?

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edxzxz 1 point ago +2 / -1

Shut the hell up you moron. Please do tell me what all these other animals are that are living in the rafters of a 5 story concrete parking garage and eating out of tuna cans shoved up into the beams? Are you and your sandy vagina imagining Bambi's mother up there? What is the disruption to the ecosystem when vermin are removed from an urban environment where the vermin have no natural predators to control their numbers, their corpses simply get washed into storm drains or picked up by street cleaners? What scenario do you imagine unfolding where killing off vermin birds somehow ends up with the 'pest problem bouncing back harder'? Sheesh, you are an absolute retard.

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edxzxz 2 points ago +2 / -0

Are you aware every city on the planet controls rat / rodent infestations by leaving poisoned bait for them to eat, which causes them to go away from where the bait is to seek water, so they die someplace else? Do you imagine coyotes, opossums, raccoons and birds of prey living in a 5 story concrete parking garage? Ever see birds of prey eating dead pigeons, or dead anything? They don't eat dead things. You know why? Because even pea brained birds understand that if the thing died, it's not healthy to eat it. You are absolutely retarded and don't know a single fucking thing that you pretend to know about here. If you had roaches in your house, are you just accepting them as part of your homes ecosystem? Shut the hell up. You know what the 'collateral damage' from my plan was - it was over 30% of the parking spots becoming usable when they had not been before because of bird shit. Also, an absence of massive deposits of disease spreading bird shit. Do you understand that large numbers of birds shitting inside a building where rain never washes it away is a very serious source of very bad diseases?