Is the Goverment Slum Lords?

Is the goverment slum lords? If you look up the defination of rookery it is what the slums were called in Victorian London. The Rookery that has been out my front door makes my neighborhood feel like we are living in a slum. The noise from the birds at dusk is loud. The odor from the droppings, regurgitation, dead birds, dead fish, dead snakes, dead frogs and broken eggs. The yards, sidewalks and streets are covered with it and have been since March. We have also had 39 days of over 100 degree weather to add to all of it.

Documents from Goverment Agencies regarding Cattle Egrets

This was writer is from the US Department of Agriculture / Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service / ADC - which is who USFW report to. Their own officers states: The USFWS needs to recognized the economic, health and nuisance problems created by this invading species and consider management operation including population reduction as well as changes in treaties, laws and polices. It was written in 1991!

http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1177&context=icwdmprobe

Here is another one written by USDA regarding invasive species

 

12 Invasive Predators: a synthesis of the past,

present, and future

“…if all the animals and plants of Great Britain were set free in New

Zealand, a multitude of British forms would over the course of time

become thoroughly naturalized there, and would exterminate many of the

natives.” Darwin 1872

William C. Pitt

1

Station, P.O. Box 10880, Hilo, Hawaii 96721;

National Wildlife Research Center, 4101 LaPorte Avenue, Fort Collins,

Colorado 80521

12.3.2 Birds - Cattle Egrets

1 and Gary W. Witmer2USDA/APHIS/WS, National Wildlife Research Center, Hawaii Field2USDA/APHIS/WS,

Poor dumb people...

Poor dumb people who care more for the birds than the humans. They think because of what the City of Carrollton did in 1998 that the birds had to find another place to roost.

Here's a question - where have they been since 1999? It was not in my neighborhood so this is not their natural habitat.

The Cattle Egret is an INVASIVE species World-wide. Why is it classified as naturalized and allowed to destroy our Continent? What a bright idea from USFW/DOI.

The birds do not belong in a residential area - it's not good for humans or birds.

Another neighborhood is hit...

Here is another neighborhood that has been impacted by the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/A-Dallas-Neighborhoods-Fowl-Problem-126938813.html

The neighborhood has gone to the birds...

I wish I would have had a video camera last night. There were so many babies running around the neighborhood Animal Services came out three times. They bagged six in net on one of the neighbors entryway. When they caught all the ones they could the see and pulled down the street all the ones that were hiding came out.

Some of the other neighbors have been calling Animal Control to pick up the birds.

The fallen have taken to the streets

Well since the neighbor quit calling Animal Services for every fallen bird they are now wandering the streets and alley's. There are a few dead on the streets as well as in the canopy. Email's have been sent to the Audubon Society with no response.

Found out the City Attorney told the Council not to vote to help us or they would be liable. No one is going to do anything until the birds are gone.

The trees look deceiving...

Well the experts think the birds will only be in the trees another 2 to 4 weeks. I think the experts are wrong there are still babies. The young in the trees that are falling out still have down on them.

They all come out and look at the nest during the day. To get the full impact they really need to come out in the evening. That is when they have all come back for the evening to roost.

The neighbor who had been calling Animal Control to pick up the fallen birds has thrown in the towel. He will no longer be calling so there are several young wandering the neighborhood. It really changes your perspective when you are forced to live in this situation.