As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Sunday 24 August 2014

San Antonio airport takes non-lethal approach to bird removal

Dillon Collier, KENS 510:04 p.m. CDT August 22, 2014

San Antonio International Airport records obtained by the I-Team show lethal bird removal is not used here


SAN ANTONIO -- Last month, hundreds of birds were killed at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport as part of a bird abatement project created by the airport and United Airlines.

The birds, which included pigeons and grackles, ingested a poison called Avitrol, which had been manufactured to resemble corn kernels.

While legal, according to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regulations, the method caused the birds to suffer epileptic-like seizures before they died.

Animal rights activists called the project "cruel and inhumane."

San Antonio International Airport records obtained by the I-Team show that this type of lethal bird removal is not used here.

Since 2011, the airport has carried out at least one major bird removal or relocation project each year.

The projects were implemented without killing a single bird.

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