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VIDALIA, La. — Iffour-and- leave another 499,976 birds to
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“There are thousands and
thousands of them — blackbirds
with some robins mixed in,”
police spokesman Wesley Bruce
said Wednesday. “They always
roost around the area, but this
year they’ve moved into town.”
With their sidewalks and
yards covered with bird drop
pings and their sleep inter
rupted by cackles and calls, some
of the 6,000 residents in the Mis
sissippi River town have re
sorted to shooting at the birds.
Although a small number have
been killed, most merely return
to the trees when the noise of
gunshots subsides.
“They just fly up and come
back down,” Bruce said. “It
doesn’t do any good, but they’ve
even got some people making
blackbird pies out of them. I ha
ven’t tried any and I’m not plan
ning on it.”
Residents are hopeful the
estimated half-million birds will
back down in the face of the fed
eral government, which plans to
come to the rescue Monday with
a barrage of noise-making de
vices designed to frighten the
birds out of town.
The birds have taken over
four or five residential streets,
and officials worry about health
problems the vast amount of
bird droppings could cause.
“It’s a sanitary problem, and it
could cause some health prob
lems with disease carried by
birds,” said George R. Abraham,
state supervisor of the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service.
Wildlife service biologists will
use machines to produce loud
booms and broadcast recorded
bird distress calls for about two
hours each evening for four
days, beginning Monday.
careers
Abraham, who estimated
300,000 to 500,000 birds were
roosting in Vidalia, said such
techniques had been used to re
locate flocks of up to 5 million.
But while blackbirds readily
find new roosts during the noisy
onslaught, robins are harder to
relocate, he said.
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who commandeered her car
wasn’t just after money. She says
she thought of her eight kids,
weighed the odds and decided
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