15 JULY: Wildlife enthusiasts aren’t too pleased with latest efforts by New York airport authorities to prevent bird strikes.
A few days ago, rangers herded 400 Canada geese into a fenced area at a lakeside park in Brooklyn, packed them into crates and took them off to a nearby building to be gassed.
A local resident who used to feed the geese each morning told the New York Times: “It’s a horrible end. It’s eerie to see a whole population gone.
“There’s not one goose on this lake. It looks as though they’ve been Photoshopped out”.
But authorities are defending the action, with a government official telling the newspaper: “The measure is necessary.
“The thing to always remember in this New York situation is that we are talking about aviation, and passenger and property safety”.
Authorities have been working harder to cut the geese population since some of them flew into the engines of a US Airways flight in January last year, forcing the now famous emergency landing on the nearby Hudson River.
