I found these two paragraphs interesting:
"Behind the rise, experts and officials say, has been the growing
abundance of garbage, a product of Japan's embrace of more wasteful
Western lifestyles. This has created an orgy of eating for crows, which
are scavengers. Some steps taken to reduce crows include putting garbage
into yellow plastic bags, a color the birds supposedly cannot see
through, and covering trash with fine-mesh netting, to prevent large
beaks from reaching the goodies within."
"In 2001, the city began setting traps in parks and nature reserves,
using raw meat as a lure. In the following seven years, the city
captured more than 93,000 crows, which it killed by sticking the meat in
trash bags filled with poison gas."
It sounds like a few million wheelie bins could solve them problem.
Peter Shute
wrote on Wednesday, 7 May 2008 8:10
PM:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/world/asia/07crows.html
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