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Around here it's Pigeons, but they seem to occupy the same niche as these Crows. Part of the problem is that not only are they good scavengers, but some people actively feed them causing not only a huge mess (piles of rotting bread dumped on the pavements), but it encourages the birds to congregate and multiply.
Can't we just make pigeons and crows kill each other somehow?
Around here it's Pigeons, but they seem to occupy the same niche as these Crows. Part of the problem is that not only are they good scavengers, but some people actively feed them causing not only a huge mess (piles of rotting bread dumped on the pavements), but it encourages the birds to congregate and multiply.
Pigeons aren't even native to North America, but they're so well suited to urban environments it's doubtful they're going anywhere. A week or two ago I guess it was mating season because I saw a bunch of them doing courtship dances.
Around here it's Pigeons, but they seem to occupy the same niche as these Crows. Part of the problem is that not only are they good scavengers, but some people actively feed them causing not only a huge mess (piles of rotting bread dumped on the pavements), but it encourages the birds to congregate and multiply.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pigeons aren't even native to North America, but they're so well suited to urban environments it's doubtful they're going anywhere. A week or two ago I guess it was mating season because I saw a bunch of them doing courtship dances.
North America once had a native pigeon, with an estimated population of 3-5 billion . They were driven to extinction due to hunting and habitat loss. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon
Dealing with these crows seems like it would be a good computer-vision/ML/AI/data/drone/"weapons" problem. Killing baby crows in the nest in Tokyo a la [1] would necessarily remain human work, but open-air operations could be done with drones. Would there be a non-lethal approach to harassing crows that would drive them away? If a program chooses the lethal approach, what weapons and disposal methods? How much would…
Sometimes you don't need a technological solution, sometimes what we already have is good enough and it doesn't get much better than simply using the existing circle of life.