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City officials are wondering why dead birds have been found in Queens outside the Steinway Piano Factory and in a lot on South 4th in Williamsburg. WCBS 2 reported that over the past few days, 20 birds have been found outside Steinway's Long Island City factory. Authorities eading authorities to wonder if they were killed from a pesticide, all died from West Nile, or had flown into the side of the building. The Audobon's hypothesis: "Migrant birds passing through the city are getting confused by the reflection of trees on the factory's windows, and are crashing straight into the building." Which may well be. But that doesn't explain the dead birds in Williamsburg. And according to the WCBS 2 report, residents called 311 to complain about the birds over the weekend, but the FDNY only responded yesterday.
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I saw some in Brooklyn as well, on 5th Avenue.
Really?? I better get to them while they're still fresh. They make great hotdogs.
Aw crap. A female friend called me over to her place in Gramercy two days ago to dispose of a dead pigeon that had flopped around on her patio for a few hours before kicking. Great. Now I've probably got avian flu.
can you include instructions on how to kill as many pidgeons as possible using the least amount of pesticide, thank you.
but the FDNY only responded yesterday.
- why is this the FDNY's responsibility?
Unclear why the FDNY responded, but my guess is they were dispatched after the Queens incident started to seem creepy and someone checking the 311 logs noticed, hey, there are dead birds in Brooklyn, too!
And apparently dead squirrels were also initially reported at the scene, those the CBS 2 story didn't say anything about them - maybe the birds looked like squirrels. I was worried that this was the work of a burgeoning serial killer.
How about an investigation into the possibility that it could be Avian Influenza (Bird Flu); the next pandemic? This was the exact season scientists said it could hit the United States (beginning with the eastern sector), yet not a single blurb anywhere about it this season.
did anyone stop to think that maybe this was a mass suicide? you know, like a pigeon version of heaven's gate? did anyone check to see if they were wearing sneakers? if so, then case solved!
Since this happened in Williamsburg, the obvious explanation is that after receiving the initial thrill of shopping at a one or two funky record stores and partying in two or three bars, they eventually got bored to death.
shopping at one or two (ignore the "a")
I saw two dead pigeons in a park on my way to work today in Windsor Terrace.
I live on the east side of Bushwick Ave. I have probably seen over 10 dead birds (not just pigeons) over the past two months. eerie.
Please report your dead birds to the dept of health here:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/wnv/wnvbird.shtml
Has anyone in Williamsburg noticed a large number of mosquitoes lately? Like, more than in years past? Does anyone else out there in TV land have any information on Mosquitofest 2006?
I've noticed mosquitos in Bklyn. Shouldn't they be gone already? It's almost October!
the birds I saw in park slope weren't pigeons. One was green but it wasn't one of the famous Brooklyn parrots.
#14 - Yes I have. Like #15 said, it seems a bit late for them. Then again, I hardly saw them during the whole summer. Eitherway, I'd rather have mosquitos than bedbugs.