Metro’s pigeon problems just keep piling up.
First, there were complaints from people who had to walk and drive
the methods used — including the use of pellet guns — are humane.
“I think they’re doing an excellent job,” said Brenda Parvis of the
Washington Humane Society, which has been monitoring the cleanup work
under the bridges over Van Buren and Aspen streets NW, near the Takoma
station.
“They are doing it the wrong way,” said Jackie Freitag, president of
the Wildlife Rescue League, a regional group based in Falls Church.
“Let’s do it in a humane way.”
Both groups agreed with Metro that something had to be done about the
pigeons, which apparently were attracted to the steel girders under the
bridges by bird lovers who leave food nearby.
Before the cleanup, a person “couldn’t walk or drive underneath
without being bombarded with pigeon feces,” Parvis said. “People were
walking through inches of pigeon excrement.”
“I understand the problem,” Freitag said.
Metro spokeswoman Beverly Silverberg said the pigeons, which carry
disease-bearing lice, also create a health hazard.
Metro hired a pest control firm, J.C. Ehrlich Co. Inc., of Reading,
Pa., which has been clearing out the underpasses during the past two
weeks. The firm attached a large net just below the girders where the
pigeons roost. Then it drove most of the birds out the sides with water
and air hoses before beginning to steam clean and disinfect the area,
Silverberg said.
But many birds did not leave. Friday, dead pigeons’ bodies were lying
in the netting, while live pigeons flapped around inside.
The Humane Society has been allowed to use the contractor’s equipment
to leave food and water so that the remaining birds inside don’t starve,
Parvis said.
But Freitag said the birds had no food for three days, and said there
are baby birds trapped inside that have been abandoned and cannot feed
themselves.
Parvis said an exterminator took all the fledglings out and turned
them over to the care of league members.
The biggest disagreement has been over the decision to shoot the
remaining pigeons with pellet guns.
The Humane Society views this as the most humane alternative, Parvis
said. Allowing them to starve or leaving poison would cause slow,
painful death, while continuing to feed them would cause them to
reproduce, she said.
But league members said the pellet guns do not kill the birds
instantly, and cause the birds to suffer.
“We had offered numerous alternative solutions, all of which were
pooh-pooh’d,” said Linda Lieberman, a league member.
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