when the local lake near my parents becamse overrun by canada geese, who do you think showed up en masse to protest the village's plan to remove them? the outsiders! the locals couldn't wait to get rid of those avian pests. geese poop, like ALL avian poop by nature, contains ammonia, and when there are thousands of them, it adds up to levels so high, that the water is deemed dangerous to fish in the water and other birds that depend on the water for food, like ducks.

what the village ultimately ended up doing is sending animal control officers to crush the eggs in the nests around the water's edge. no goose problem anymore.

This is why Obama will no longer get my vote. fuck him

While I don't see the geese as a major aviation problem except in the immediate vicinity of the airports, they are a major factor in the fouling of our waterbodies, where many other species try to survive. Fed migratory regs pretty much rule out private hunters, but gov culling can be done. While migratory by species, the resident population is really a damaging invasive species, just like the Zebra mussel and the flying carp (though I really do think the carp are kinda cool).

Is it really necessary to exterminate these creatures? Perhaps they could instead be resettled in eastern lands (e.g., the Hamptons). If they must be exterminated, they why not unleash our large and protein-deficient population of third world immigrants to do the job for free? Geese are fine to eat, and offer the impoverished immigrant complete protein. Under the guidance of NYPD or perhaps, some hunters, these people could solve this problem for us once and for all.

I was surprised to learn that Jamaica Bay was the top stopover point for migrating birds on the East Coast. That is why they created the wildlife refuge.

So why did they also build an airport there?

Legalize the hunting of Canadian Geese in the city and I think you go some way towards solving the problem.

Hunting in urban areas and near airports just ain't gonna happen.

http://www.exoticmeatsandmore.com/goose.aspx?&source=agbase

all geese migrate. dont believe peta. that 'these gesse don;t fly and are no threats to plabs' is utter bullshit. they have wings, and when they need to fly they will- period.

youngpoo, they do not migrate and I can send you the facts to your STB's mail

geese are migratory birds- period- and until you can learn otherwise from an ornithologist or biologist then stfu.

this is so stupid. can you imagine the amount of money and time that would have to be burned to achieve this goal? And then, surprise! new geese will move right in. i think we'd have a better chance if set up a 'politician kill zone' within city limits.

I agree. Any politician that approaches the city is to be shot on sight.

Sigh. Not that I like geese - I hate those flying crapsacks. But if you kill them more will just show up to take their place. This is ecology 101, people. If you want to get rid of a pest, you have to change the environment in such a way that it is no longer appealing to the pest. This area is easy living for geese, from the parks to live in to the idiots who feed them. Unless you change that, nothing will change, no matter how many geese you kill.

i get depressed when i watch ignorant groupthink like this. that map would be funny if it weren't so sadly retarded. SMH, man.

This is what I've been confused about as well. The flight that landed on the Hudson was apparently hit by geese likely migrating from Canada. I would understand this plan if there was scientific logic behind but it seems like there is not, though maybe I am misinformed.