After being sucked into a plane that took off from JFK, another bird has gone up to the big…sky in the sky. The Post reports that passengers on the aircraft started salivating shortly after takeoff: "Suddenly the plane smelled like chicken," one woman said, "I thought, 'Wow! They have hot food on the plane!'" Don't give the airlines any ideas! 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 ›

Are the country's geese now heading to our roads to possibly intimidate us humans against our anti-geese measures? A Megabus headed up the New Jersey Turnpike to New York had to make an emergency stop after a flock crashed into the bus' windshield, sending glass flying into the driver's eyes. 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 ›

A lot of city folk have been wondering why we can't just eat the Canada geese that are being slaughtered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That's 290 birds to waste, and 170,000+ to go, after all. CityRoom reports that the bird tastes like a dark, tender cut of smoked chicken—and they know this because in other states the planned killings do end up as dinner. 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 ›

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 ›

On Friday it will have been a year since “Miracle on the Hudson”-pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger flawlessly executed a water landing that saved his passengers from near obliteration. The media is already buzzing with updates on the pilot, crew and passengers. And what about those poor geese? more ›

We're getting preliminary reports about an "aircraft emergency" this morning at LaGuardia airport, where an incoming American Airlines flight was hit by a bird strike when coming in for a landing. No injuries are being reported, but paramedics were called to meet the plane at gate 10, apparently as a precaution. The pilot also reported a "hydraulic leak in the nose gear." The incident comes as the city moves to euthanize 2,000 geese within 5 miles of airports during their molting season, in an effort to prevent another crash like the one that befell Flight 1549. more ›

Mayor Bloomberg offered up a priceless quote on the clip that has been circulating the internet, cable news and late night talk shows of President Obama stopping to kill a fly mid-interview. The mayor said to the Daily News, “I don’t know why he did it. I had pickets outside my house for geese last night. We are sending some of these geese for well-deserved rest up in the sky, wherever geese go. But the bottom line is, we can make fun of the geese but they’re a danger to human beings flying. And we’re doing what's appropriate, and I’m sure what the president thought about was that particular fly might be spreading something like the H1N1 flu and he was going to risk his own life with hands - bare hands, without Purell - and he protected the public by hitting that fly, and we owe him a great debt of gratitude. I'm sure he’s laughing about it right now." Meanwhile PETA has sent the president a fly-catching device, asking him to think a little longer next time before he commits another "execution." more ›

According to the NY Post, Operation Kill At Least 2,000 NYC Geese is well underway: "Nearly 100 Canada geese were killed yesterday...Agents from the US Department of Agriculture hit four city parks and will continue rounding up the geese this week, said Allen Gosser the department's assistant state director." How did the USDA agents do it? They brought the geese "into a corralled area" and put them in "wooden crates," later gassing them with carbon dioxide. The city and Port Authority are trying to cull/kill geese in order to improve airline safety, since Flight 1549 was brought down when geese flew into the Airbus 320's engines. However, some critics of the plan say some humane measures, like scaring them with fireworks or changing the landscaping, might also be effective. Yes, what about the Geese Police, those cute border collies who help rid areas of geese? more ›

The Humane Society of the United States has weighed in on New York City's—and the Port Authority's—plan to cull/kill/gas 2,000 geese. The city perceives the geese as a threat to airline safety, given that geese took down US Airways Flight 1549 (Mayor Bloomberg reiterated on his radio show, "We're trying to strike a balance. In the safety of flying, the public trumps the rights of the geese"), but the Humane Society says, "The best and most lasting solution to secure the safety of air travelers as well as preserve wildlife is to reduce the attractiveness of airport-vicinity open space to animals such as waterfowl and to limit access to other creatures." more ›

Birds—they think they own the skies. Ever since the Wright Brothers they've been vying for supremacy up there, landing their first fatal blow in 1912 by downing a plane into the surf off Long Beach, California. Yesterday's emergency landing in the Hudson River was just the latest chapter in an ongoing pitched battle between bird and plane. Of course, from the point of view of the Canada geese believed to have been consumed by both engines of U.S. Airways Airbus A320, yesterday's strike must have seemed a bit of a Pyrrhic victory (though there's probably a sweet flock of virgin geese greeting them in the afterlife, hey-oh). more ›

Sure, a Queens man was fined for feeding pigeons in his backyard*, but Westchester County officials can't touch a resident who welcomes many, many geese to his yard. The Post took this video of the scene at Westchester County resident Gary Lundqvist's house, which apparently gets many Canadian fowl during its migration. more ›

Ugh: A Lake Beach in Southold, Long Island is closed due to "high levels of bacteria caused by waterfowl droppings and storm-water runoff." Luckily no one has reported any illnesses. It's unclear if officials will require the services of the Geese Police. more ›

City councilman and mayoral hopeful Tony Avella held a press conference today at City Hall to spotlight a pending council resolution urging the New York State Senate to outlaw force-feeding ducks and geese to produce foie gras. A bill to ban the practice is languishing in Albany, and Avella hopes his largely symbolic gesture will push it forward. more ›