by johnnymarin | Oct 4, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
“Please don’t curse me. Uncle, please forgive me. I made this mistake for the first time in my life. I will not repeat it. After taking away your pigeons I haven’t been able to study well. My mother also scolded me. I will repay your loss after I get a job… I am giving them back. I am even giving you my pigeons…”
This is a portion of the note Binu Philip found outside his house a week after he lost 10 rare pigeons costing nearly Rs 48,000. 44-year-old Binu, a manager at a showroom for tiles, collects rare species of pigeons, and his pets are priced at around Rs 1 lakh. On September 4, while Binu and family were away from their house in Venjaramoodu in Thiruvananthapuram, 10 pigeons went missing.
The theft was discovered when Binu’s friend, who was feeding the birds while Binu was away, came to the house and found the enclosure broken into and some birds missing. Binu immediately filed a complaint with the police.
On Tuesday evening, at around 7pm, some of Binu’s neighbours saw two persons on a motorcycle throw a box into Binu’s compound.
When they opened up the box, they found pigeons inside, as well as a plaintive note of apology.
“The note was written in pencil, on a ruled sheet torn from a notebook. The person who wrote it mentioned that he had visited my house once. I think it might be some school boys. The neighbours couldn’t recognise the bike riders as they had covered their faces,” says Binu.
Among the pigeons that accompanied the plaintive note, says Binu, only five were among the rare birds that he lost. “There were another four pigeons in the box. But these were regular pigeons, and were ill too. Two of them died soon after,” he says.
Even among the five rare birds that were returned, one bird’s feathers had been badly cut off.
Binu suspects that his remaining birds have been sold off, as the writer of the note offers to repay him after getting a job.
The note makes another plaintive plea for forgiveness. “I just have my mother at home. She scolded me a lot. Please forgive me I will not do it again,” says the letter.
However, Binu says that the losses to him have been too large for him to withdraw his police complaint. “The pigeons that are still missing are worth Rs 25,000,” he says.
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by johnnymarin | Oct 3, 2017 | Bird Netting
PLANS to install netting at an iconic Knutsford building in an attempt to move pigeons on have been agreed by a town council committee.
The window areas of the Gaskell Memorial Tower at the Belle Époque will be blocked by netting, similar to that at The Courthouse, to deny the birds access.
The tower and surrounding buildings have become overrun with ever-increasing flocks of pigeons, furthering the issue of pigeon fouling in the town centre.
Members of the town council’s assets and operations committee voted to allocate almost £6,000 to the project, which would also see blunted spikes installed to prevent roosting.
Town clerk Adam Keppel-Green wrote in a report to members: “The committee has previously discussed the issue of pigeon fouling within the town centre and the environment committee is looking at town centre-wide options to reduce the overall pigeon population.
“It is proposed to install netting to the window areas on the tower, building and side building to prevent birds infesting the area. The netting will enclose the affected area and deny the birds access.
“This will involve installing steel fixings at each corner and at 500mm intervals to which wire and netting is then attached. There are existing areas of netting on the building already. Netting would be translucent to minimise any visual detraction from the listed building.
“Bird point would be affixed to the top ledges of the tower, ledges on the tower and on the piping around the building. The points are blunted and do not harm the birds but prevent it from being able to balance which encourages them to find a new place to roost.
“Whilst installing the netting and bird point existing bird fouling in the areas would be cleaned up.
“The council’s agent would oversee the works and arrange for listed building consent if required by the conservation officer.
“The cost of the works is £5,934.07.”
The council’s environment committee voted last month to explore further the installation of dovecotes in the town centre, with a budget of £2,600.
Installation will follow discussions with businesses and groups, and will allow for easier destruction of eggs to control the population growth.
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by johnnymarin | Oct 2, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
KANPUR: Now, birds are not free to travel on roadways buses. If any bird is found to be travelling on bus window it will liable to buy a valid ticket for its journey to nowhere. One bird can sit anytime to rest after its long flight but the Avian’s very presence inside the bus will not be forgivable. It is generally seen how the birds come and sit on the moving vehicles and quickly fly after a few seconds. However, a state government bus cannot put up with this haughtiness of the flying avis.
There is a strict rule for ticketing of the birds in Tamil Nadu buses. That’s why a pigeon sitting on the state corporation bus window was fined for travelling without a ticket. The conductor was issued with a memo. The passenger denied the presence of the pigeon when he boarded the bus. During the course of the ticket checking a pigeon was found with an inebriated passenger in the bus. In accordance with the rule of the Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation, it is imperative to pay one-fourth of the whole fare in case one person travels with more than thirty pigeons.
Just as none can put control on free air, free sun, the free movement so as a pigeon’s free movement cannot be checked calculatingly. The birds have total freedom to fly in the sky, to sit at its desired spot and rest at its nest after the darkness. The bus conductor insisted upon the absence of the pigeon from the passenger while getting on the bus. Unsatisfied with this point of the conductor, the officials in the rank of inspector issued him a memo. It seems just as a human being is nothing without the proof of Aadhaar Card so as the unshackled bird was carrying a punishment for without ticket travel.
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by johnnymarin | Oct 1, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
PCSO Sarah Giles, who polices the Sidwell St Market area, said it appeared to be “a particular group of street attached drinkers” and said they eat the birds so they can spend their benefits on booze.She accused them of “blatant pigeon eating”.
She said: ‘They have money to spend on booze, so they have the money to buy food.
“Many are alcoholics, and to keep a certain consumption level, will drink continuously. They are not filling a pub, because it is a different sort of drinking.
“It turns into a group, then a bigger group, and now we’re eating pigeons, now we’re killing seagulls. It escalates.”One trader, who asked not to be named, said the incident was “terrifying”.
She saw two men coaxing pigeons with bird seed before stuffing them into a rucksack.”
She said: “They managed to get 14 in, even with them flapping about. It was the space of around 20 minutes.”
PCSO Giles added that there had been reports of geese and swans also being captured, and a horrific incident where several children witnessed a woman stomping on the head of a seagull.She added: “We need to get community cohesion going – we don’t have the option to police it every day and a traders group would be beneficial.”
A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall police said: “This is being investigated as causing unnecessary suffering under the Animal Welfare Act 2006.
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by johnnymarin | Sep 30, 2017 | Pigeons in the News
A row over racing pigeons ended Thursday night with a Miami man convicted of murder.
Jurors convicted Lazaro Romero, 47, of murdering a man he believed owed him 20 prized birds in a case that shook South Florida’s small but passionate pigeon-racing community.
He was convicted even though he was not the one who stabbed Yoan Vazquez to death in the yard of the man’s Miami home in November 2013. Instead, jurors believed, Romero was the mastermind who got his brother to come along to retrieve the pigeons — and it was his brother who stabbed Vazquez eight times.
The jury deliberated less than two hours before deciding on his guilt. Circuit Judge Diane Ward asked police to immediately take him into custody.
“Have faith,” he told his sobbing family members in the courtroom gallery. “I love you. Be calm.”
Romero, who faces up to life in prison, will be sentenced in the coming weeks.
The verdict came nearly three years after Vazquez was stabbed to death, all while his 6-year-old daughter watched feet away.
Pigeon racing is a sport that has existed for centuries and is popular in circles of Cuba and South Florida.
The birds have a navigation instinct that guides them back to their home lofts. During competitions, birds are released from the back of coops on trucks, sometimes hundreds of miles away; special electronic chips attached to the birds’ legs clock in their times when they return to their coops.
Vazquez, an art framer who hailed from Cuba, met Lazaro Romero through their love of the sport.
At trial, jurors heard that Romero helped Vazquez learn how to immunize and care for the birds.
But when Romero fell on hard times in 2013, losing his house, he sold the 20 breeding pigeons to Vazquez, prosecutors said. Romero later claimed that he lent the birds to his friend.
Either way, Romero began demanding his birds back. Vazquez refused. On the day of the killing, Romero and his brother drove to Vazquez’s Miami home and confronted the man as he tended to his coop in the backyard.
During the confrontation, prosecutor Marie Mato told jurors, both men pounced on Vazquez. Freddy Romero stabbed him to death — and unbeknownst to the brothers, Vazquez’s 6-year-old daughter witnessed a portion of the attack.
The confrontation and attack were captured on surveillance video.
“What difference does it make if these pigeons were loaned or the product of a sale?” Mato said. “Does it make sense that a 31-year-old man with a 6-year-old girl and a wife and family lost his life over some birds?”
Romero, however, insisted that he never planned to hurt Vazquez — and had no idea that his brother would fatally stab his former friend.
“He did not touch Yoan,” defense lawyer Julia Seifer-Smith said. “You can watch that in the video over and over again.”
Freddy Romero did not testify during the trial. He agreed to plead guilty and is serving a 25-year prison sentence.
“Lazaro could not have foreseen that Freddy was going to stab Yoan,” Seifer-Smith said.
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