Crows are flocking to our cities. Murders of crows are blanketing Charlottetown, P.E.I.'s waterfront and have previously inundated Woodstock, Ontario where at least 40,000 crows outnumbered human residents. [Canadian Press]
The noise and feces of these murders disturb and annoy their human hosts. In Charlottetown the City Council is reluctant to spend the necessary money to shoo away the birds with "high-pitched bird distress and and predator calls".
One councillor suggested his colleagues fear the crows might migrate to their own backyards.
A solution is still being sought.
Strange that the City Council doesn't see the obvious: why not make crow pie a delicacy, in the clever way that the French made slimy snails (ugh!) and slithery oysters (double ugh!) into gourmet foods.
Oh, right. No City Councillor is going to eat crow.
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I'd love it if councillors could find a use for these black chickens, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Woodstock City Council continues to employ our "scarecrow" at about $10K a year because of the damage they cause. But cities are a banquet of opportunities for these very smart birds. And we're a cheese processing centre that if their feces get into their plants, they would be shut down. Just some thoughts from the crow capital of Ontario.
Michael Harding
Mayor, City of Woodstock
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