How to catch loads of pigeons

[Cunning Plan]

"If you haven't seen this yet it's a video of some folks that were hired by the city of Barcelona to help remove pigeons from the city and thus reduce the flying rat's fecal impact on buildings and landmarks. And this is how they do it"

[Andy]

Thats effective. What do they do with them afterwards?

[Cunning Plan]

[F Body]

Quoting: Cunning Plan

flying rat's

I also saw something in Barcelona a few weeks ago where they played some bird of prey noises through huge speakers around the city

[F Body]

President of the Association for the Defence of Animals, (ADDA) argued: "It's cruel and in the end it will do nothing to curb the pigeon population."

They argue that extermination methods only result in the pigeons laying more eggs to compensate.

"If a quarter of the population is killed then within two years it will return to original density in a rebound effect."

The charity is instead calling for special lofts to be installed to encourage the birds to roost and where the population can be controlled by taking away newly laid eggs and putting fake ones in their place.

In that case kill more than 25% then

[ianjpage]

very effective netting!!

[Titsy]

[philoldsmobile]

Quoting: filthy tree hugging delusional hippie

President of the Association for the Defence of Animals, (ADDA) argued: "It's cruel and in the end it will do nothing to curb the pigeon population."

so pigeons are sor of magical animals who just re appear?  

[Roadkill]

Quoting: F Body

In that case kill more than 25% then

98% would be a fair start . . .

[art b]

Quoting: Andy

Thats effective. What do they do with them afterwards?

hmmm  pie.

[Roadkill]

Quoting: art b

hmmm (pigeon) pie

Roll on Hastings !

[EDGE]

i MUST have one of those nets and launhers...

would be WICKED COOL to use on bunches of chavs!

now if only i could figure out how to use a steel net and electrify it

[Incursus]

Quoting: EDGE

MUST have one of those nets and launhers...

would be WICKED COOL to use on bunches of chavs!

now if only i could figure out how to use a steel net and electrify it

Or a shrinking one, Predator style!

[Big Mouse]

How can it be cruel, he fed them first.

So, using ADDAs questioable logic, if exterminating them encourages them to produce more eggs, then it follows that the same will happen if you replace fertile eggs with duds?

Pidgeons aren't the smartest creatures in the world but when it comes to following the rules of evolution they are up there with the rest of us. If a hen lays a batch of dud eggs she will abandon them and, being a little feathery slut, will find a cockbird and start again.

Net them, remove them, gas them. Or better still, net them, poison them with heavy doses of strychnine and then feed the corpses to stray cats straight away