Santa Clara, other Bay area cities at wit’s end in battle to clean up the birds’ rampant droppings
They strut through grassy knolls, preen their feathers and bathe in Central Park’s water fountain, all while leaving behind piles of poop – some 176 pounds’ worth a day, to be exact.
And although there’s a business that unleashes dogs to scatter the geese, city officials have eschewed that practice as “cruel” and just a “temporary deterrent.” At wit’s end, the city now plans to control the federally protected fowl by employing a form of birth control known as egg addling. Bird watchers say their numbers have been increasing as much as 30% a year in the South Bay since the late 1980s, according to avian expert William Bousman’s Breeding Bird Atlas of Santa Clara County.
The eggs can then either be coated with corn oil, punctured with a needle or shaken vigorously to kill the embryos. After that, they’re returned to the nest.
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