About 800 Canada Geese near NYC airport euthanized (living, move)

[JoanD'Arc]

Here's the link:

The Associated Press: About 800 geese near NYC airports euthanized

It's sad, useless and a tragedy all at once. There are better ways to protect airplanes.

[Bydand]

800 geese, or risk a plane load of people. Goodbye geese. Sorry, but that is the cold hard reality.

[TheTruth08]

These Geese are everywhere. When you walk in a park you have to watch your step very closely.

[NooYowkur81]

As far as I understand they aren't even supposed to be there to begin with. It's our fault anyway as the human race for forcing them out of their natural habitats but like others have pointed out it had to be done to protect people on planes.

[JoanD'Arc]

Originally Posted by NooYowkur81

As far as I understand they aren't even supposed to be there to begin with. It's our fault anyway as the human race for forcing them out of their natural habitats but like others have pointed out it had to be done to protect people on planes.

Originally Posted by Bydand

800 geese, or risk a plane load of people. Goodbye geese. Sorry, but that is the cold hard reality.

I knew, of course, that these arguments would be presented.
It's not a choice of geese over people. It's a choice of finding ways to remove the threat of the birds without destroying them. These people took the lazy way out and made the decision to destroy them instead of finding ways to keep them away from the airport. It has been done successfully in other places with birds of prey or dogs or loud music chasing them away.

It seems wrong to me.

[WildCardSteve]

I think it's a shame that no one got to eat them.

And, they are far from being endangered. They are thriving and reproducing to beat the band, believe me.

BTW, I've a bird watcher and lover for some 35 years.

[JoanD'Arc]

Originally Posted by WildCardSteve

I think it's a shame that no one got to eat them.

And, they are far from being endangered. They are thriving and reproducing to beat the band, believe me.

BTW, I've a bird watcher and lover for some 35 years.

Maybe they're not endangered, but they are beautiful animals. As a nature lover, you might think about people destroying nature needlessly. The human species is already making a possibly irreversable mark on most other living creatures. It's just a shame.

[ddhboy]

I hate Canadian Geese Personally. They're everywhere, and one can argue that they are overpopulated. When you go upstate they just dump on everything near water. Trust me, 800 gone is doing nothing to their total population, and the fact that there were 800 of them just roaming around the airport should be worrying enough.

[JoanD'Arc]

Originally Posted by ddhboy

I hate Canadian Geese Personally. They're everywhere, and one can argue that they are overpopulated. When you go upstate they just dump on everything near water. Trust me, 800 gone is doing nothing to their total population, and the fact that there were 800 of them just roaming around the airport should be worrying enough.

My point is: Why kill them instead of dealing with the problem on a permanent basis, like using tactics that would keep them away from the airport in the first place?

What those people did is senseless.

[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by WildCardSteve

I think it's a shame that no one got to eat them.

And, they are far from being endangered. They are thriving and reproducing to beat the band, believe me.

BTW, I've a bird watcher and lover for some 35 years.

Considering both sentences in bold above, I highly doubt you're a "bird watcher and lover". LOL, ridiculous. The things people say here...