Santa Monica may install net under pier to catch bird droppings
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- Santa Monica may install net under pier to catch bird droppings
- Dove hunting right of passage
- What’s a bird worth?
- Search is on for missing Philly parrot
- Is the musk ox the next dodo?
- Echo ends racing season in style
Santa Monica may install net under pier to catch bird droppings
Los Angeles Times
The Santa Monica Daily Press has more:The City Council tonight is expected to approve a $107758 contract with Bird Busters to install a net directly beneath the Santa Monica Pier where pigeons roost and frequently defecate creating challenges for City Hall to meet bacterial levels set forth by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board. City officials said they believe that installing the net and thereby eliminating the roosting sites beneath the pier will reduce bacteria pollution caused from pigeon feces. A consultant hired last year to evaluate various projects that would keep bacteria levels below the board's requirements identified netting as the most effective solution for deterring birds.
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Dove hunting right of passage
ESPN
Dove hunting with this many birds will fool you into thinking you are a better shot than you really are. The reason being that unlike our hunts in the U. there are so many birds that you don’t even bother to take the difficult shots.
What’s a bird worth?
Asheville Citizen-Times
In addition to the birds police confiscated $8000 in cash so the gambling involved wasn’t trivial. According to the story “Canaries which have a general reputation for being sweet songbirds are known to fight with each other particularly during the breeding season. Songbirds aren’t exempt from the nature-red-in-tooth-and-claw thing: nce while camping at an klahoma state park I watched a couple of tufted titmice chase each other all around a big oak until one of them fell to the ground dead its skull crushed by hammer blows from the other bird’s beak. But of course the Connecticut ring had nothing to do with nature and everything to do with cruel human beings who thankfully now are out of business and facing fines and jail time.
Search is on for missing Philly parrot
The Money Times
The parrot was one of four Sun Conures who were performing as part of zoo’s Festival of Flight show. Zoo spokesman Bill Larson said it must have gotten confused by the pigeons. “This was a young bird 5 or 6 months old so we believe it got distracted because of its relative youth and inexperience” Larson said. “We took the first 24 hours to comb the grounds — we have a kajillion trees here. But at this time we just have to assume he is off-grounds. He appealed to the public to report any sightings of colorful birds about the size of a human hand sporting mostly yellow feathers with a green tail orange feathers ringing its eyes and a black beak the newspaper said.
Is the musk ox the next dodo?
Globe and Mail
Preventing damage [there] is likely to be more effective than trying to repair it. It seems that in conservation as in other matters a gram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure. When the first settlers reached North America a small bird called the passenger pigeon existed in the hundreds of billions. Thunderclouds of them blotted out the sun for hours; biologists suspect that this bird was the single biggest single-species biomass on Earth bigger than the Atlantic cod or the Douglas fir that still blankets the Coast Mountains of British Columbia. Yet like the North American bison a single herd of which might number 50 million in the 1700s the passenger pigeon was decimated in a few decades. Both species succumbed to a “perfect storm” of eradication pressures — including loss of habitat to settlers’ farms and efficient new hunting technologies i.
Echo ends racing season in style
Southern Daily Echo
He ended it in style coming second in a 360-mile race from Saintes in France but was beaten by another bird belonging to his owner Robert Jones from Southampton. ?It was a really hard race so I expected him to do well? says Robert. ?Considering that he?d got an injury to his wing from fighting with another bird I couldn?t have asked for any more from him. ? Echo?s racing season is over as he has now started moulting. ?He would have gone into longer races but as soon as he had the 350-mile race he literally fell to bits? said Robert.
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