Here are some scary numbers...
If the adults return: 4,804
If 80% of the babies return : 5,764
Total number of adult birds: 10,568
Breeding pairs: 5,284
Eggs Laid: 42,272
Chicks:21,136
Total number of birds in the Rookery = 31,704
This can not be allowed to happen. The figure above is what could happen to our neighborhood if the birds are allowed to roost again. I can not believe that Texas Parks and Wildlife, US Fish and Wildlife and the Department of the Interior have been allowed to get away with this for over 30 years!
How can this be right to subject American Citizens to the kind of biological hazards the birds create? They don't test them for salmonella because they know they carry it. They don't test them for histoplasmosis because they say it's to hard to prove. There are also several other diseases the birds are known.
The laws need to change!
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