It's Geese slaughtering season again, and Staten Island is the latest location to get in on the action. Since 2009, the city has been systematically slaughtering Canada Geese that could potentially interfere with air traffic at airports, but in the beginning, Staten Island wasn't interested in getting any blood on its hands. Now, things have changed. more ›

As the city gets ready to off some more Canada geese (but tomorrow's Canada Day!), Andrea Peyser has gone over to Prospect Park to meet some of the lucky ones that may survive this mass termination cycle. But since they nearly took down a plane carrying Leonardo DiCaprio that one time, Peyser's not standing for it! She wrote, "The only good goose I know is served on a plate" (which she may be able to order up at a food bank sometime soon). Peyser's tour guide, Anne-Katrin Titze, tellls us, "I showed Peyser the 29 flightless 'critters' on the 60 acre watercourse, in order to keep her favorite target, the Prospect Park Canada Geese, off her radar for persecution and short circuit an outcry for culling in her column... We also explained to her that park Canada Geese are unfit for eating. I hope I never get that hungry." more ›

Park officials are planning to bring a border collie in to Prospect Park to control the Canada geese population there. Earlier this year the Feds rounded up hundreds of the park's geese and brought them to a gas chamber at JFK Airport (seriously, why is there a gas chamber at the airport?), but locals were upset over the eradication and rallied around their feathered friends. If the collie plan pans out, it would come with a trainer during the early summer to frighten the birds away before their feathers molt. more ›

Well, this is gruesome. For some reason the Brooklyn Paper needed some closure on that whole Canada goose massacre that went down in Prospect Park this summer, so they got their hands on the documents that detailed the extermination. Turns out the 250 or so geese that were sent to the gas chamber from the Brooklyn park were just part of the city-wide slay, which brought 1,676 geese to their deaths. more ›

Some new vandalism popped up in Park Slope over the weekend, it reads: Geese First, Jews Next. Locals aren't sure if they're offended yet, the Brooklyn Paper reports that it's unclear if the tag is anti-Semitic, or a sincere attempt to link the recent goose extermination to the Holocaust. Rabbi Andy Bachman at Congregation Beth Elohim on Garfield Place, however, thinks the words are in bad taste either way. He told the paper, “It’s either a bad joke in poor taste that falls flat, or someone too easily making reference to the extermination of Jews." more ›

When life hands you mass avian slaughter, make braised Canada goose! Well, that's what one man says—hunting instructor and locavore activist Jackson Landers (from Virginia) will be in Brooklyn on October 30th showing locals how to cook New York City's winged terrors. Landers is in the process of writing his second book, and is hoping to make his reality show a reality (watch the trailer here)—it's called "Eating Aliens," and is about eating invasive species, according to the NY Times. Well, he certainly knows how to pick an attention-getting audience; earlier this year Brooklynites rallied to save the geese after nearly 300 were brought from Prospect Park to the gas chamber. more ›

Say goodbye to the geese. According to the Brooklyn Paper, feds have now revealed their seven-mile “kill zones” around JFK and LaGuardia airports. The map (pictured above) is used by the Department of Agriculture when plotting their attacks on the winged terrors, and it pretty much covers the entire city, including half of Brooklyn, all of Manhattan (aside from the Battery), and most of the Bronx and Queens. more ›

It took her a while, but after what was surely an epic inner-debate, Andrea Peyser has sided with Mayor Bloomberg and aimed her moral compass in favor of... well, writing a sensationalist editorial for the NY Post. Basically, she wants the Canada geese dead, she wants the "militant animal-rights activists" to STFU, and she wants New Yorkers to side with humans, just like she is. But not everyone sees the issue as so cut and dry, one pro-goose human told her: "I will be gassed before I let another goose die." And the war rages on... more ›

Has someone been exposing the Canada geese to bright lights and feeding them after midnight? Because these things are multiplying Gremlin-style over in Prospect Park! Just weeks after hundreds of the park's geese were sent to the gas chamber, 37 more showed up—and now the NY Times reports that currently that number is up to 107! That's the official number declared by locals Anne-Katrin Titze and Ed Bahlman, who hand-counted them Sunday. Back when the park saw its 37 new geese, an "expert" declared that the population wouldn't continue to grow at that rate, but an official at the Humane Society countered that, saying, “the program kills geese, and then more will fly in—as they have in Prospect Park—and then they’ll have to kill more geese." more ›

The Humane Society of the U.S. has announced they're offering a reward for the Canada geese killings in Westchester County. Allegedly four geese were killed in Cortlandt on Wednesday of last week, and they're offering $2,500 for any information that helps unveils the killer. Here's the information they have so far: more ›

Yesterday protesters gathered outside of Mayor Bloomberg's mansion on East 79th Street for that protest against the mass slaughter of the city's Canada geese. Bloomberg had recently declared his support of the killings, saying, "It’s geese or human beings—I can tell you where I come out on that." However, there have only been 78 geese strikes in 10 years, and the Prospect Park geese that were recently killed were actually residing in a safe zone, outside of the radius determined too close to the airports. more ›

Not happy about all of those Canada geese getting sent to the gas chamber? This Monday (from 6 to 8 p.m.) activists will rally around Mayor Bloomberg's mansion (17 East 79th Street) declaring their disgust for the mass slaughter and demanding protection for urban wildlife. more ›

Just weeks after The Man offed 290 Canada geese in Prospect Park, there are already 37 (and counting) back in their place. It's like a water-drenched, post-midnight snacking scene out of Gremlins! According to the Brooklyn Paper, the newcomers are getting coddled by the locals, who are feeding them and, allegedly, "setting the stage for another population boom next mating season." more ›

Mayor Bloomberg was asked about the recent Canada geese gassings—with 290 killed in Prospect Park, and around 170,000 more to go. But while many New Yorkers are upset about the mass killings, Bloomberg is in full support of it. He told the Wall Street Journal, “Look, the Department of Agriculture has to deal with the fact that all these geese are a danger to people flying. People are not going to stop flying and we have to make a decision. It’s geese or human beings—I can tell you where I come out on that. I don’t think you need a quote from me.” In the past 10 years, there have been 78 goose strikes in New York—the most famous being that of US Airways Flight 1549, which was forced to land in the Hudson River. more ›

Following the recent euthanization of around 290 Canada geese in Prospect Park, a nine-page report shows the city's overall goal to thin down the population by 2/3, meaning that around 170,000 geese will be sent to the gas chamber. more ›

The feds are defending their actions which led nearly 300 Canada geese from Prospect Park to the gas chamber earlier this month. Over the past week residents mourned the loss of their local geese (there was a vigil), and a former Parks Commissioner called out the US Department of Agriculture for slaughtering geese that were more than 7 miles away from the city's airports (the rule is that geese within 7 miles will be euthanized). So what do the officials with blood on their hands have to say? more ›

Over the weekend Prospect Park Administrator Tupper Thomas finally addressed the matter of the Canada geese that used to reside in her park, but were recently captured and brought to the gas chambers (the total body count was 290). According to the Brooklyn Paper, Thomas broke her silence on the issue via a statement addressed to “Friends of Prospect Park.” You can read it in full below; it says, in part: more ›

While the Brooklyn Paper rightfully calls the recent mass-slaughter of Canada geese in Prospect Park a cruel and inhumane massacre, at least it wasn't a mysterious murder scene. The geese were killed last Thursday in a gas chamber in an ongoing effort to rid the skies of the winged terrors, lest there be another emergency landing in the Hudson. more ›

After hearing that 250 to 400 Canada geese were relocated from their Prospect Park home to a nearby gas chamber, locals are mourning their old feathered friends. The move was part of the plan to reduce the geese population near the city's major airports, since one of their clan took down US Airways Flight 1549. Last Thursday the birds were captured, brought to the gassing facility, and dead within five minutes of the carbon dioxide entering their systems—they are currently buried in a mass grave. more ›

Prospect Park has seen its share of animal deaths this year, but the latest was planned and carried out by the United States Department of Agriculture. According to CityRoom, four hundred Canada geese were captured and euthanized last week in an ongoing effort to curb the population of winged terrors. more ›

Last year Mayor Bloomberg declared his support for, you know, killing Canada Geese before they kill us... so why are the ones closest to one of our major airports being protected? The NY Post says the National Park Service has halted any efforts to remove geese from the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge—which runs right up to one of the airport's runways. more ›

The Rangers took an unexpected hit when they were en route to their game in Boston on Saturday... by a goose! The Post notes that a goose hit the wing of the team's plane, which caused an emergency landing. According to NJ.com, their Boeing 737 was grounded in White Plains, where they were then split between two small jets and two six-passenger helicopters. All that and they lost the game to the Bruins yesterday afternoon. And geese: you better watch your back (this is the 2nd time this month the bird has made it to the pages of the Post again). more ›

Are Canada geese fighting back at the NY Post? The plucky tabloid reports that a flock of the birds struck a Boeing 777 that left Newark for Hong Kong on Wednesday: "The pilot told controllers the geese hit the left wing of the craft, which was fully loaded with fuel for the 16-hour flight." And among the 301 passengers—a Post reporter! more ›

Port Authority officials continue to fight off the terror threat posed by Canada geese, employing techniques from falconry to to shotguns to killing their eggs. With Captain Sully being given a hero's welcome back to the skies as he returned to work this week, it seemed time that we better check in on the villain that was disposed of, lest they come back bigger and stronger than ever. Officials from the PA say they are doing just that, not losing any momentum after over 1,000 were "rounded up" this summer. more ›

The Post, which called war on Canada geese earlier this year after the bird strike that downed US Airways Flight 1549, adds to its list of bird vs. flying machine incidents, reporting that a bird dent the front of a Boeing MD-80 which was landing at Laguardia Airport yesterday. more ›

The roundup of Canada geese around NYC airports is now nearly halfway complete with a total of 800 having been trapped and gassed. Operation "Goose-Be-Gone" has now removed geese from 15 of the 40 sites within 5 miles of Kennedy and LaGuardia Airports that is expected to kill around 2,000 birds. However one wildlife expert told the Queens Tribute that the city's removal program is only skimming the surface. Dr. Steven Graber said, “They’re definitely on the right track. They’re finally doing what they’ve been supposed to have been doing this entire time. However, they’re forgetting about 90 percent of the property and 90 percent of the problem.” A spokesman for the mayor's office disputed that saying, “In the City, there isn’t much open space that isn’t city owned." The Times had more pictures of the geese being rounded up earlier in the week at Randalls Island. more ›