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So in light of the almost doomed flight back in January that landed in the Hudson River, the city has planned to euthanize the geese population from New York City area airports. This probably should have been done before now, but better late than never. I'm sure some animal rights activists will be in a tizzy over it, but I'd rather get rid of these birds than have another disaster!

"Now it's war! Geese are going to need gas masks this summer, as a multi-agency task force plans to round up and euthanize 2,000 of the flying menaces around area airports, it was announced yesterday.

A massive, $100,000 plan by federal, city and Port Authority officials will start in the next few days and run through the end of July, with the hope of wiping out geese within five miles of Kennedy and La Guardia Airports.

It is aimed at preventing near-disasters like the bird strike that caused Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger to ditch US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in January"

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Re: NY Geese To Be Euthanized
Um... Sick I don't get why they can't relocate the animals. They're not purposely doing anything harmful. Why not euthanize all the muggers in NYC too? I mean they have a set goal to injure people. I'm also sure that there would be some type of repellent that could be used. I mean they mention the following measure also being taken...

* Training airport supervisors as certified shotgun instructors, so they can shoot birds in "emergency" situations.

* Enhancing a falconry program, which involves training birds of prey to scare off the geese or attack them.

* Installing a new bird radar pilot program at JFK.

...these I can agree with. Not a massive geese hunt. They are a gaming bird, are they not? I mean are they planning to make ANY use of the carcasses? Or just useless killing?
Don't get me wrong... I don't want them to cause more deaths of people, but again... how many people have died from a goose incident? None I believe. Yes there was a near catastrophe. How many people have died in other plane related accidents? I would suspect hundreds of thousands... why not stop air travel? Wouldn't that be safe also?
Again... I'd bet there's another way to handle this.... Actually I know there is.... a quote from a site about dealing with Canadian Geese...
Geese utilize something called the trigeminal system which is similar to our sense of smell. A constituent of concord grapes has been found to be so unappealing to Canada geese that it actually seems to overwhelm them to the point that they are driven away from the treated environment. Despite its dramatic effect on bird infestation it has been used by the food and drug industry for over 40 years to flavor candy, sodas, gums, and drugs, is listed by the US FDA as "Generally Recognized As Safe" (GRAS), and is classified by the US EPA as "reduced risk".

Edit: PS- I'm still shocked these buggers can take flight Surprise


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Re: NY Geese To Be Euthanized
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Um... Sick I don't get why they can't relocate the animals. They're not purposely doing anything harmful.

Yeah seriously? We have to kill the geese because they're just doing what's in their nature? Why can't we just capture them and free them elsewhere? Ugh...things like this get me so mad....I've become such an animal activist. I'm suprised no one from ASPCA or PETA aren't acting on this.

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I'm suprised no one from ASPCA or PETA aren't acting on this.

They will be, I'm sure!


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Re: NY Geese To Be Euthanized

i mean, where do people get off thinking they can do this and it will be okay? to euthanize any amount of the geese population is plain wrong. there has to be a better way. this is sick.

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Re: NY Geese To Be Euthanized
Somehow I don't think relocation works, they're migratory so they'll keep on returning. So killing them off, well it may work for a year but they'll return again the following year so in the end it's not really a long term solution.
How many planes have been downed because of geese? I have no clue, but do we really have to have a catastrophe in order to do something about it? "An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure”. I'm sure there are more humane ways of getting rid of the birds and they should probably be put into place first. Where I work we were inundated with them, their poop was all over the place and the place was unsightly, then management came up with the idea of putting out this fake coyote, but it looks so real that even people were sure it was the real thing. It looked something like these guys here
Did it work, yes it absolutely did we haven't seen one messy bird since this guy has been at work Laughing Should we place these fake guys all around the airport, maybe it's worth a try I don''t Know
Bottom line -- human lives have more value than birds, and something needs to be done about it.

EDIT: Read about more success with these fake coyotes here

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Re: NY Geese To Be Euthanized

Why dont they use Hawks?

Alot of airports use them and they work wonderful. I guess its mother natures pest control. Guaranteed you'll get rid of any pesty squirls, rats, birds and more Smile I know some airports dont even use hawks but they use the hawks noies over loud speakers. My airport has hawks - it works


Predator hawk to patrol airport area
A four-foot predator hawk is set to patrol Owen Roberts Airport, culling the egrets responsible for aircraft strikes, replacing the shotguns and scare tactics that previously formed the chief defence of the runway.

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Re: NY Geese To Be Euthanized
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* Enhancing a falconry program, which involves training birds of prey to scare off the geese or attack them.

They're planning on using that as a secondary defense... but I think a primary defense would be much more acceptable!


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Re: NY Geese To Be Euthanized
Well its started, check out the story here. I'm waiting to see protestors over the coming days/weeks.

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Re: NY Geese To Be Euthanized

Well I think everyone knows my love for ducks and well geese fall into that area too (I really don't like them at all) however I agree this is totally wrong. I understand the reason behind removing the geese but they need to relocate them and not destroy them. I'm curious as to were the protesters and the PETA ppl are.

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Re: NY Geese To Be Euthanized
Me too, haven't heard a word out of them! It's not too late though.
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