Brilliant Idea!
Now here's a story that's worth getting excited about - a plan by a small town in Catalonia, Badia del Valles, to put nuisance pigeons on the pill and reduce their numbers humanly by up to 80% over five years.
Now whoever though up this brilliant idea deserves a medal if you ask me, especially if the same thing can be done for the foul seagulls which blight the centre of Glasgow along with many other towns and cities across the UK.
So instead of 'poisoning pigeons in the park' as Tom Lehrer once sang we can just use contraceptives in their feed to avoid the pattering sound of baby pigeon feet altogether.
Modern science is wonderful, don't you think?
And in Glasgow we could avoid all this automatic dispenser business by lacing discarded 'pie suppers' with prophylactic pills and before you know it, relative calm will be restored to the city's streets.
Spanish town puts its pigeons on the pill in bid to reduce numbers
Officials estimate the population will fall by up to 80 per cent within five years
By ALISTAIR DAWBER - The Independent
Don’t feed the pigeons! It’s a common demand designed to stem the population of the flying vermin that occupy almost every major European city.
But now, a town in Spain is going one step further by putting the birds on a course of contraceptives that it hopes will lead to a dramatic fall in numbers.
Badia del Valles in Catalonia has installed dispensers to scatter the pigeon Pill, Ovistop, along with grain each morning. The dispensers will operate from now until the end of the year, the time when ornithologists say most pigeons breed. “Every morning, three automatic dispensers will scatter the required dosage to the pigeon population,” said a statement on the town’s website.
Officials estimate the pigeon population will fall by up to 80 per cent within five years. At present, a couple of pigeons can produce as many as 48 offspring each year.
Officials in Wellington, New Zealand, said last month that they were considering adopting the same practice.
