Officials Euthanize Nearly 400 Geese From Prospect Park

danny hellman

http://jedalexander.blogspot.com/2010/08/geese-of-prospect-park.html

carnivore

Any chance your buddy Jed could do drawings of some of these?

MOD

Carny, come on man. Can't we "just get along"

Lovely drawing, btw. Would make a nice card.

danny hellman

Here's a photo for "Carnivore" and the other Brooklynian yucksters with file cabinets full of awesome foie gras jokes.

I shot this yesterday at the goose spot in PPW, and as you can see, the USDA's plan to make our airports safe from these feathered terrorists has been an overwhelming success.

And yes, we brought along a whole mess of stale bread, and dispensed it accordingly, in spite of the green sign. FTW.

carnivore

It's the gift that keeps on giving! More foie gras to harvest!

Clearly the thinning of the geese herd (flock) has not in any way decimated the population. Hopefully, with the next culling they won't waste all that tasty meat!

danny hellman

See, just like I said: awesome.

whynot_31

This is turning out to be similar to incarcerating prisoners, or the war on drugs.

....as long as we do nothing to address the root causes of the problems, we make no progress. ....but we keep lots of people employed, and have lots to talk about.

I predict the City will keep killing geese until the war of drugs is viewed as silly, or until society genuinely figures out how the hell to "rehabiliate" someone who may have never been "habilitated" in the first place.

Danny, could it be that you are causing more geese to live --and thus more geese to die-- as result of feeding them your stale bread?

...isn't that sorta what Frank Purdue does?

danny hellman

whynot_31 wrote:

Danny, could it be that you are causing more geese to live --and thus more geese to die-- as result of feeding them your stale bread?

Are you saying that instead of feeding the geese stale bread, I should feed them drugs? My head hurts.

whynot_31

I hear the right drugs makes chickens have such huge breasts they can't stand.

....our fascination with boobs is amazing.

danny hellman

whynot_31 wrote:

....our fascination with boobs is amazing.

It's what keeps me coming back to this awesome message board.

whynot_31

It doesn't have as many as I would like.

...but I have to be in the right mood for those other sites.

snarkslope

Danny, if you love the geese as much as you claim, you should not feed them bread-it has no nutritional value and may lead to "angel wing," a condition that renders them unable to fly. It is junk food but filling so they won't eat as much of what they should be (duckweed, etc.).

smokin joe

came across this today. looks like israeli airports have worse bird problems than nyc, but somehow they don't resort to killing all the birds:

Migration watch saves Israeli jets from bird strike

TEL AVIV, Dec 1 (Reuters) - "Every instrument that could give bad news did: cracking metal, all alarms ringing," former Israeli Air Force pilot Israel Baharav said.

"I didn't need instruments to tell me the engine was gone and I was now sitting in a piece of scrap metal that had been a brand new fighter plane just seconds before."

Baharav ejected and survived to learn that what he had experienced was a devastating bird strike, a hazard for military and civilian air traffic that destroys planes and kills pilots across the skies, but most particularly in the sky over Israel.

The Jewish state combines one of the world's biggest air forces, busy commercial aviation traffic, a tiny air space and a surprising discovery about the natural world.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6B04M720101201

smokin joe

key facts from above article:

1. an estimated 500 million birds cross the tiny country twice a year, once on their way to wintering grounds mostly in Africa from breeding grounds in Europe and Russia and then back the other way in spring.

2. " 'Take care. We share the air,' is the motto of present-day Israeli Defence Force courses..." what a concept.

3. in recent years a complex flight information system for all big birds has been designed to avoid collisions. . . During the entire migration period from August to October a network of ground observers -- volunteer ornithologists with binoculars and telescopes -- is deployed every 1.5 miles across the width of the country. They count the birds flying over, log species, altitude and direction, and alert the authorities of big concentrations. Together with the results of radar and satellite tracking ... an exact and up-to-the-minute information network can be established.

whynot_31

This is America Damn it!

....we ain't got nothing to learn from no other peoples no where.

(sarcasm)

Clearly the USDA and TSA compete with each other for good ideas.

booklaw

I don't understand: how do they teach the big birds to use the "complex flight information system"?

(tee hee)